question regarding nagios.cmd

[Andreas Ericsson]

enediel gonzalez wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm using nagios Nagios 2.0b3 on debian sarge
> 
> Reviewing the scripts for recurrent downtime available on 
> www.nagiosexchange.org I could insert some schedule downtime on nagios.
> 
> But even when I declared  downtimes on the near future, let's say in 2 
> hours, I executed the scripts (manually), I checked on the nagios 
> interface and I saw the new entries on nagios !perfect!,
> I deleted all entries on the nagios interface after, and  (for testing 
> purposes) I tried to execute the same process several times (in the same 
> order described, inserting, deleting).
> 
> Nagios never had duplicated entries for scheduled downtimes, but came 
> the moment when the same script used in my test did not modify the 
> nagios configuration anymore.
> 
> specifically I was trying to execute downtime_job.pl  available on
> http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Downtimes.38.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=363 
> 
> 
> and properly configured
> the script didn't returned me any error, no logs,neither nagios.
> 
> I checked the file permissions for nagios.cmd,
> I executed the script using the root's account,
> also
> chmod 777 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw     (for testing purposes)
> 
> 
> ?Is something specific on nagios that doesn't allow me test this way?
> I'll appreciate any answer
> 

grep your nagios.log for 'poll()' or some such. If polling the 
command-pipe errors out it won't re-open or be able to read it any more.

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