[pkg-go] Bug#813544: Bug#813544: prometheus-node-exporter: cannot run as root

Anton contaminates at baconmail.net
Wed Feb 3 19:20:24 UTC 2016


Hi Martín,

> Thanks for the patch! I have already applied it in the git repository,
> and will be uploaded soon.

Thanks for the quick fix!

> 
> Now, I would not recommend to run the node exporter as root, unless
> absolutely necessary. Do you have a use case for it?

I have a number of filesystems that are mounted within a directory structure only accessible by root.
Non-root users are unable to statfs() those mount points, however I need to monitor their disk usage.
What I will probably do in the long-term is mount those partitions into another directory and then bind-mount them to the root-owned path, however running the exporter as root is a work-around I am using until that happens.

- Anton


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