Reloading config - all plugins fail with 127 out of bounds

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Forsyth, Austin wrote:

> First, let me say Nagios is running quite well with my configuration, but
> I've run into a confusing problem - platform is Nagios 1.0, plugins 1.3.0 on
> RedHat 7.3.
> 
> My hosts check reliably, my services check reliably, soft and hard
> conditions come and go as is expected, email notification is solid -
> 
> However, every time I change my configuration, either to tweak scheduling or
> simply add another service to monitor, after a reload *every* plugin fails
> and I'm swamped with email notifications. The reason is "Plugin returned
> code 127, out of bounds, make sure the plugin exists..." for all plugins -
> ping, hpjd, ftp, telnet, etc.
> 
> No, my configuration does not fail the check. Yes, everything returns to
> normal if I *kill* the process, restart it and let it run for around 10
> minutes or so to straighten out schedules and re-check everything. If I do
> not restart, it will not operate.
> 
> This error (returned 127 out of bounds) has been mentioned before on this
> list in the archives, and most of the people asking about it either forgot
> to put the plugins where the system was going to look for them, or didn't
> tell the system where to look properly. I haven't found a message from
> someone with a perfectly operational system that performs a simple
> configuration reload, or stop/start, and then receives the 127 out of bounds
> error.
> 
> Any suggestions are very welcome.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Austin Forsyth
> Senior Network Engineer
> Caminus Corporation
> 

How are you achieving the reload - HUP or script?  if script - is it 
HUPing the correct process?

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-sg



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