Problem with log rotation

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Mon Mar 24 12:46:06 CET 2003


On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 holger.justen at aktion-mensch.de wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have some problems with the log rotation option of Nagios. At the 
> moment, I'm using weekly log rotation (but the same problem also occured 
> with daily rotation). When log rotation takes place two files are created 
> in the archive directory:
> 
> -rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios      32159 2003-03-22 23:37 
> nagios-03-22-2003-23.log
> -rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios         34 2003-03-22 23:59 
> nagios-03-23-2003-00.log
> 
> Most events are included in the nagios-03-22-2003-23.log (e.g. 
> nagios-03-23-2003-00.log just contains "[1048373973] LOG ROTATION: 
> WEEKLY"). The cgi-scripts (like history.cgi) are looking for archived log 
> files ending with -00.log, therefore not all messages are displayed in the 
> web interface. What has to be done in order to get Nagios to display all 
> messages related to a log period?
> 
> Related configuration:
> log_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log
> log_archive_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/archives
> log_rotation_method=w
> 
> Thanks,
> Holger Justen

What version of Nagios ??


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