Lots of Nagios Processes

[Martin Melin]

Yeah, the "nagios" part just means that the nagios user spawned "./update
500". My guess is that you have a check command defined that calls
"./update", maybe the 500 is some kind of timeout? Check your command config
file.
Regards
Martin Melin

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 6, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Martyn wrote:
>
> > Not sure what went off with this server last night but my processes
> > log below shows lots of Nagios entries, does any know why this would
> > happen and how I could prevent it in future
>
> > nagios 10314 6691 0 09:09 pts/0 00:00:00 ./update 500
> > nagios 10315 6691 0 09:09 pts/0 00:00:00 ./update 500
> > nagios 10316 6691 0 09:09 pts/0 00:00:00 ./update 500
> > nagios 10320 6691 0 09:09 pts/0 00:00:00 ./update 500
>
> What is 'update 500'? That's not a normal part of nagios and something
> you must have created/installed. It looks like the problem is with
> that program, not nagios.
>
> --
> Marc
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