Nagios 4 ignores object_cache_file and log_file

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 09/16/2012 01:01 PM, Joerg Linge wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> its me again ;)
> 
> Now running on git HEAD dc2caf36
> 

You're very up to date then. Awesome :)

> i use customized path to object_cache_file and log_file inside of nagios.cfg
> 
> ----
> OMD[ng4]:~$ grep objects.cache tmp/nagios/nagios.cfg
> object_cache_file=/omd/sites/ng4/var/nagios/objects.cache
> 
> OMD[ng4]:~$ grep nagios.log tmp/nagios/nagios.cfg
> log_file=/omd/sites/ng4/var/nagios/nagios.log
> ----
> 
> But nagios uses the default locations out of include/locations.h
> 
> ----
> OMD[ng4]:~$ ./bin/nagios  /omd/sites/ng4/tmp/nagios/nagios.cfg
> 
> Nagios Core 3.99.95
> Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
> Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
> Last Modified: 09-14-2012
> License: GPL
> 
> Website: http://www.nagios.org
> Warning: Could not open object cache file '/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache' for writing!
> Warning: Cannot open log file '/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log' for writing
> Nagios 3.99.95 starting... (PID=29838)
> Local time is Sun Sep 16 12:54:34 CEST 2012
> command_wproc->ioc: 0x105ed40
> Successfully launched command file worker with pid 29839

Gotta get rid of that debug output too...

> Workers spawned: 4
> ----
> 
> Some events are written to /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log and later
> to the correct location /omd/sites/ng4/var/nagios/nagios.log

Hmm. I wonder how that happened. Would you mind bisecting it? I'm guessing
it's something to do with the object_cache_file now being a nagios core
variable instead of something belonging to the xodtemplate layer (which
really shouldn't have any variables of its own).

> Also /usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache is created but never updated
> 

Well, that's by design. The objects.cache should only be written to once.
Or do you mean that it gets created but is empty?

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