Our initial steps focus mainly on extracting and building the collectd source. We pass one parameter to the configure script to set the configuration file's location and leave the rest at their defaults.
By default, collectd installs in the /opt/collectd directory. If you are unhappy with this arrangement, we suggest that you change the --prefix and --exec-prefix parameters when executing the configure script.
Our next steps involve copying the provided initialization script into the server's /etc/init.d directory to start and stop collectd. While there are several contributed scripts and configurations in the contrib directory of the collectd source code, ours will work with almost any Linux distribution.
Once collectd is ...
