Init script issue

[Russell Scibetti]

There is a problem with the Nagios init script.  A little while back, 
Paul (the other person working on Nagios here) noticed that the killproc 
function in the init script never ran because there is a killrpoc 
function included in the  /etc/(rc.d)/init.d/functions that the script 
inherits.  This was later fixed by changing the name of the function to 
killproc_nagios (as it is now in 1.0b5).

However, the same problem exists (at least in RedHat) when you try to do 
/etc/init.d/nagios status.  status is also an inherited function, so the 
status function that is written in the init.d script nevers runs.  You 
will get a status output, but not the right one.  If you are getting a 
message like:

nagios (pid 111 222 333.....) is running

then the wrong status function is being called.  The real output should 
be a one line ps result (ps -p $NagiosPID if you look in the script).

You can fix this one of two ways.  The quickest is to change any 
reference to "status" to "status_nagios" the same way the killproc 
problem was fixed.  The other way is to remove or comment out this 
section of the script:

if [ -f /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ]; then
       . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
elif [ -f /etc/init.d/functions ]; then
       . /etc/init.d/functions
fi

This will make sure any function called will run the actual function in 
the init script, not the built-in Linux function.  There seems to be no 
problem with commenting out these lines (I'm running the script just 
fine).  So unless someone can tell me when these are necessary, you can 
remove them and the script will work as it should.

-Russell Scibetti

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Russell Scibetti
Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
http://www.quadrix.com
(732) 235-2335, ext. 7038




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