nagiostats Config Parameters

[Jochen Bern]

Everyone,

I played with the "-c" and "-s" Parameters of a 3.2.3's nagiostats today
and noticed the odd behavior shown below. I didn't look at the source
yet, much less write a patch, but I thought you might want to check on
3.3.x and 3.4.x beforehand (and maybe extend t/705nagiostats.t a bit).

Kind regards,
								J. Bern

Normal operation:

# N="/usr/local/nagios"
# $N/bin/nagiostats -m -d NUMSVCOK
1659


status.dat has been moved elsewhere (onto a ramdisk):

# strings - $N/bin/nagiostats | grep /nagios/
/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat
# grep /status.dat $N/etc/nagios.cfg
status_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/spool/status.dat
# strace $N/bin/nagiostats -m -d NUMSVCOK 2>&1 | \
>    egrep '/nagios/[a-z/]*[a-z]*\.'
open("/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg", O_RDONLY) = 3
open("/usr/local/nagios/var/spool/status.dat", O_RDONLY) = 3


Specifying nagios.cfg explicitly works:

# $N/bin/nagiostats -c $N/etc/nagios.cfg -m -d NUMSVCOK
1659


Specifying status.dat explicitly - no go:

# $N/bin/nagiostats -s $N/var/spool/status.dat -m -d NUMSVCOK
0
# $N/bin/nagiostats -s$N/var/spool/status.dat -m -d NUMSVCOK
0
# $N/bin/nagiostats --statsfile $N/var/spool/status.dat -m -d NUMSVCOK
0
# $N/bin/nagiostats --statsfile=$N/var/spool/status.dat -m -d NUMSVCOK
0

(Doesn't work together with -c, either.)


It *does* read the status.dat, though:

# strace $N/bin/nagiostats -s $N/var/spool/status.dat -m -d NUMSVCOK \
> 2>&1 | egrep '^open'
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
open("/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3
open("/usr/local/nagios/var/spool/status.dat", O_RDONLY) = 3

(... but where'd nagios.cfg go ... ?)
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