Steps to install this tarball 1) create xymon user: useradd xymon -home /usr/lib/xymon 2) login as xymon: su - c xymon 3) download tarball: wget http://repo.hpc.lsu.edu/files/xymon/xymon-client-4.3.10.tar.gz 4) unpack tarball: tar -xzvf xymon-client-4.3.10.tar.gz 5) pick binaries: A) If 32 bit machine: ln -s bin.i386 bin B) if 64 bit machine: ln -s bin.x86-64 bin 6) logout and rteturn to root 7) install INIT script: cp ~xymon/client/xymon-client /etc/init.d/ 8) Install default config: cp ~xymon/client/etc_default_xymon-client /etc/default/xymon-client 9) start xymon: /etc/init.d/xymon-client start