check_nagios -- not detecting status log update correctly

[Nick Weaver]

It's a folder called "nagios" in my inbox, but I have some others. I was
just wondering if I could axe the backup by adding _spam to the end of
any folders, as I have a few others (mailing lists, etc) that don't need
backed up either. 

Nick Weaver
Manager, Lab Infrastructure

nick.weaver at applabs.com
P: 801-852-9500

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of frank
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:59 AM
To: Ben O'Hara
Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_nagios -- not detecting status log
update correctly

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Ben O'Hara wrote:

> On 11/29/06, frank <ratty at they.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Ben O'Hara wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/29/06, Terry <td3201 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks for the reply.  Filesystem has 256G available and nagios is
>>>> definitely running and is performing service checks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Try a newer version of the plugins, looks like a problem i had a few
>>> days ago where check_nagios is expecting to use /var/status.log but
it
>>> needs to use the status.dat file
>>>
>>> recompile the plugins and it should be fine.
>>>
>>> Ben
>>
>> Actually I'd lean more towards it being a case of "old and busted".
When I
>> hit this problem it wasn't a matter of the status.dat location (since
"-F
>> /path/to/status.file" is one of the _required_ CLI args). Upgrade to
>> Plugins 1.4.3 and you'll be ok. If you don't want to upgrade all your
>> plugins at once just compile the package and copy the check_nagios
binary
>> out instead of running "make install".
>>
>
> Yes, its a required arg but im sure the format of status.dat has
> changed, it used to be status.log and im fairly sure it changed format
> along with its name.
>
> Ben
>> -f

I'm sorry, I misread part of your post. To me, "recompile the plugins" 
meant "re-run make and make install", not install the new version. We
were 
both saying the same thing.

I wonder if this fact needs a FAQ because the fix was non-obvious to me.
I 
spent far too much time running straces and the like. But I didn't
bother 
to read the C code.

-f

>>>> On 11/29/06, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> check that your filesystem isn't full, this happened to me
recently, an
>>>>> incentive to add a filesystem space check which I did!
>>>>>
>>>>> oh yeah, and silly but obvious, check your nagios is running...
>>>>>
>>>>> -h
>>>>>
>>>>> Hari Sekhon
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Terry wrote:
>>>>>> [root at omautil01 ~]# date
>>>>>> Wed Nov 29 10:03:49 CST 2006
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [root at foobar ~]# ls -l /var/log/nagios/status.dat
>>>>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios 155812 Nov 29 10:03
/var/log/nagios/status.dat
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [root at foobar ~]# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios -e 5 -F
>>>>>> /var/log/nagios/status.dat -C /usr/bin/nagios
>>>>>> Nagios problem: located 1 process, status log updated 1164816202
seconds ago
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>>
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