Status.log file disappears? I RTMF'ed. ;)

[Thomas Quinlan]

All,

Decided to go back and RTFM again, and it turns out
you can ignore me, this is by design.  From the
Manual:

"This is the file that Nagios uses to store the
current status of all monitored services. The status
of all hosts associated with the service you monitor
are also recorded here. This file is used by the CGIs
so that current monitoring status can be reported via
a web interface. The CGIs must have read access to
this file in order to function properly. This file is
deleted every time Nagios stops and recreated when it
starts."

Tom

--- Thomas Quinlan <corsis_tom at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Russell,
> 
> Yes, I have 3.3GB space left on the /var/ partition:
> 
> # df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted
> on
> /dev/hda2             244M   51M  194M  21% /
> /dev/hda5             3.4G  1.4G  2.0G  41% /usr
> /dev/hda6             3.4G  107M  3.3G   4% /var
> /dev/hda7             3.4G  110M  3.3G   4% /opt
> /dev/hda8             717M   33M  684M   5% /tmp
> /dev/hda9             702M   33M  670M   5% /home
> none                  124M     0  124M   0% /dev/shm
> 
> Tom
> 
> --- Russell Scibetti <rscibetti at opensight.net>
> wrote:
> > Quick thing to check - do you have enough
> diskspace
> > to write the status.log?
> > I had the problem once when my disk partition was
> at
> > 100%.
> > 
> > Russell
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Thomas Quinlan" <corsis_tom at yahoo.com>
> > To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 12:11 PM
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Status.log file
> disappears?
> > 
> > 
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I'm new to Nagios, and I seem to have been able
> to
> > get
> > > it up and running for the most part (though
> pings
> > only
> > > so far).  When I click around on the various
> > pages, I
> > > always get messages like "It appears Nagios
> isn't
> > > running, so command/process information isn't
> > > available."  I don't know what these errors
> mean,
> > when
> > > Nagios is obviously running.
> > >
> > > Also, for "Process Status Information", I always
> > get a
> > > critical error because the log couldn't be
> opened
> > for
> > > reading.  Checking my nagios.cfg file, the file
> > should
> > > be:
> > > /var/nagios/status.log
> > >
> > > This file doesn't exist.
> > >
> > > If I stop nagios, then create the file, and then
> > start
> > > nagios again, the file disappears (no matter
> what
> > > permissions or ownership I give it).
> > >
> > > Anyone have any idea why that occurs?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
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