Nagios and log rotating

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Mon May 4 12:34:35 CEST 2009


Ales Rikovsky wrote:
> Question from Nagios newbie:
> 
> I need an access to the whole Nagios history to the complete log archive.
> As Nagios (due to logrorating??) compresses the logs, I can't see for
> example stats for the whole year or so. So I'm getting a message:
> 
> Error: Cannot open log file
> '/var/log/nagios/archives/nagios-04-28-2009-00.log' for reading!
> 
> 
> Is there a possibility or way to let the log files not to be compressed
> and therefore the whole history available at ANY time, please?
> 

Nagios does not compress rotated logfiles. If logfiles are compressed,
something else is doing the compressing. In that case, you need to
disable that (whatever it is) and undo the damage it has done.

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