Re: [Proposal] switching user and group id

[Martin Pala]

Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> BTW, have anyone checked out the state stuff I added to
> monit? it seems to work okay.(?)
I plann to do it, but have problem with free time now. Whenever i have a 
minute i work on device/file/directory stuff (see bellow)

> Martin said he will start on the new
> file/dir/device check functionality soon (didn't you Martin? :)
Yeah, it works in general, but it has yet lot of issues:

- extend cervlet to support details for new functionality (now it has 
only partial cervlet support - it gives informations in overview section 
only)
- solve 32-bit constraits (probably work directly with blocks rather 
then bytes)
- filter out unsupported configurations options for 
file/process/directory/device
- add functionality to file/directory tasks
- documentation
- etc.

I worked on it only few hours per last two weeks so the progress isn't 
very good :( I will have some time today and plan to work on it little bit.

> Ahen this is ready we should be able to make a new release. 4.0 maybe?
> RedHat just jumped from 8.0 to 9.0 so it's possible :)
Yeah :) Next release will contain lot of changes, it is possible to 
simplify the code of resource checking according to new device check 
functionality - i will propose it as soon as i will submit the initial 
patch. It could involve incompatible change in configuration file. Next 
think is possible rewrite of internal structures related to new 
functionality which isn't required but fits better to extended major 
monitoring tasks (Process_T -> Task_T) => new major number is fine, 
because of the changes.

Martin