Am Di, den 16.03.2004 schrieb Michael Mansour um 00:47:
> I think with a product like Nagios, you're better off
> installing from .tar.gz and following the install
> instructions provided on their website.
>
> You really have no idea what Dag does to those RPM's
> when he creates them (good work and praise to him for
> doing this, but I previously used a dovecot release of
> his on an FC1 test box and dovecot's config was
> totally broken thereafter).
You can easily see and know how Dag compiled nagios! Dag has the spec
file for each RPM online accessible. I prefer RPMs and it is not hard to
modify the spec file for own needs, if that is needed/wanted.
> Nagios is one of those packages which is complex
> enough to not be released on RPM and easy enough to be
> installed from tarball.
>
> Michael.
Alexander
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