[collectd] Compiling on HP-UX/Solaris

[Jeff Haney]

Hi octo,

No, I googled too and couldn't find anything :)  I support the Unix 
systems that one of our biggest applications runs on here at work.  The 
Solaris 6 systems run the old, although current production, version of 
the app.  A new system is in development that runs on HP-UX and Linux.  
So all the Solaris systems are basically frozen, don't want to bother 
with or disturb them in any major way.  Just continue to support them 
until the new system goes live.  Nothing against Solaris of course, that 
just happens to be what the old system runs on.  The decision on which 
hardware and OS platform to use for the new system was made before I 
ever got here.  Since I've only been here a few months I can't say why 
the Solaris systems were allowed to get so old without an update...

Concerning HP-UX, after starting up my collectd client and then having a 
look at /var/lib/collectd on my collectd server I suddenly remembered 
(after seeing only "df-" files) that HP-UX doesn't use procfs and that 
might be a problem for collectd. Doh!  Oh well, it looks like only my 
Linux systems will have all the nice system stat graphs.  I'll have to 
come up with a less elegant way of graphing maybe some CPU and memory 
stats from HP-UX and Solaris...  Thanks for all your help octo, I really 
love the way collectd works!

-jeff

Florian Forster wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:12:55PM -0500, Jeff Haney wrote:
>   
>> On to Solaris...  I'm trying to compile collectd on Solaris 6 and I
>> get this configure error:
>>     
>
> apparently Solaris 6 is missing the `nanosleep' systemcall. I didn't
> find an alternative that's provided by Solaris 6 using google. Do you
> know one?
>
> Why are you stuck with such an old system anyway? I image you must have
> some reason, otherwise you would have upgraded long ago ;)
>
> Regards,
> -octo
>