Re: openmosixview bugs/issues/wishlist

Hubert Chan <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:28:03 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cluster.openmosix.mosixview
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Matt" == mosixview  <[email protected]> writes:

[...]

>> 
>> - openmosixcollector should not store its statistics in /tmp.  From
>> the FHS, the best place I can see for the stats would be
>> /var/lib/openmosixview.  (Our local version of openmosixcollector has
>> been changed to store the stats in /var/lib/openmosixview.)

Matt> mhmm, ok, i do not like /var/lib/openmosixview so much either.
Matt> Also the openMosixWebView looks for the collector files in /tmp so
Matt> if we change this Ramon has to adjust his application too (or the
Matt> user has to create sym-links to make it working).  ... will think
Matt> about it.

I wasn't that happy with /var/lib/openmosixview either, but from how I
read the FHS, it looks like this is the best place to store things.
The other place I was thinking of was /var/log/openmosixview, but they
aren't quite log files.

[...]

>> 
>> - openmosixview should not use a hardcoded /tmp/nodes.tmp filename.
>> At least it should use a mkstemp(3)-generated file.  Ideally it
>> should fork the external process with a redirected stdout, and read
>> straight from the process.

Matt> agree

I'll take a look at getting this done the "proper" way this weekend,
unless I hear from you that you've already done it.

Hubert



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