BUG/PATCH/WORKAROUND: Problem with Nagios state retention

Ethan Galstad nagios at nagios.org
Fri Apr 7 15:59:54 CEST 2006


bruce wrote:
> 
> As many people have noticed over time, there is a persistent problem 
> with Nagios not writing out the status retention file in some 
> installations.
> 
> The problem is not with the state retention code as such, but in how 
> Nagios carefully tries to write out the file to a temporary file (good) 
> first, but uses a compiled-in temporary file over the configured 
> 'temp_file' variable for the state_retention file (bad).
> 
[snip]
> 
> The attached patch (against both 2.0b4 and latest 2.1) ensures that the 
> state retention code uses the file pointed to by the configuration's 
> 'temp_file' variable instead of the compiled 'tempfile'.
> 
> --==--
> Bruce.
> 

Good catch!  I'll get this in CVS shortly.


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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Email: nagios at nagios.org
Website: http://www.nagios.org


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