many nagios processes start and quit

[Daniel Geske]

Hi all,

I start the nagios process once and it runs fine. When I do a ps, however, I
see many other process daemonizing, then disappearing soon thereafter.
The first process I started manually stays.
What can I do against this sort of behavior? I think removing this problem
would reduce load on my system.
Below you will find two ps returns, one that shows all the weird ones that
disappear, the other one doen right afterwards, being alright - the way it
should be.

I'd be happy to hear from you soon.

Sincerely

Daniel

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:/usr/local/nagios/etc # ps waux | grep bin/nagios

nagios    2645  0.1  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios    4917  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios    4945  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios    4949  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios    5005  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios    5049  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios    5078  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios    5115  0.0  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:30   0:00
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
root      5174  0.0  0.4  1600  536 pts/2    R    15:30   0:00 grep
bin/nagios

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:/usr/local/nagios/etc # ps waux | grep bin/nagios
nagios    2645  0.1  1.0  2584 1372 ?        S    15:29   0:00
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
root     14446  0.0  0.4  1600  536 pts/2    R    15:33   0:00 grep
bin/nagios

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Comment: PID 2645 was originally started by me and stays in the process
list. The others come and go...?
Is this normal behaviour?
I am running the latest Nagios 1.0b6 on Linux.




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