Re: Gkrelltop showing processes from wrong machine

On Sunday 19 Mar 2017 14:33:16 Patrice Levesque wrote:
> > I have gkrelltop showing on both instances, and they both show the
> > same processes: the ones on the workstation. I don't see anywhere to
> > configure this in ~/.gkrellm2.
> 
> If remote data cannot be read, gkrelltop will show local processes.
> 
> The README file included with gkrelltop offers a troubleshooting method
> to ensure the plugin's loaded and that the daemon actually sends the
> data on the wire.  I suggest you check there and report back results if
> you're still stuck.

That did it - thanks.

I didn't realise I had to dig so deep into the docs. Mea culpa.

> Shot in the dark: on CentOS 6, the gkrellm-top package installs the
> plugin in /usr/lib64/gkrellm2/plugins but gkrellmd looks for plugins in
> /usr/lib64/gkrellm2/plugins-gkrellmd - a symlink suffices to fix it so
> that gkrellmd finds the plugin.

No, it was just a matter of uncommenting the line "plugin-enable gkrelltopd" 
in /etc/gkrellmd.conf. (This is Gentoo.)

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Regards
Peter