Zabbix Port

[Charles Trevor]

Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:56:58 +0800
> David Schulz <davidschulz at tca-cable-connector.com> wrote:
> 
>> The /usr/ports/net-mgmt/zabbix Port consists out of two components,  
>> Server and Agent. I would like to install the Agent only, so it  
>> shouldnt need all these large dependencies such as mysql etc, but i  
>> cant figure out how to do that. I skimmed trough the Makefile, 	and  
>> it mentions things about ZABBIX_AGENT_ONLY , but i can figure out how  
>> to turn that knob. Can anyone tell me please?
> 
> Hi David,
> you need to define the value you see in the makefile when building the port.
> so,
> 
> cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/zabbix
> sudo make -DZABBIX_AGENT_ONLY install
> 
> and you should be set. You can check the output of the build and figure out if
> something is not going to plans...
> 
> B
> 
<snip>

David,

Perhaps an easier alternative would be to use 
/usr/ports/net/zabbix-agent, which will gve you the client install only. 
   If done this way portupgrade et al shouldnt revert to building the 
full package, which they seem to if you use a make flag to build the 
client portion only.

Charlie