could not find status log: /var/log/nagios/status.log

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ranga Nathan wrote:
> Now and then Nagios had problem coming up. The message I get is "could not 
> find status log: /var/log/nagios/status.log", which is misleading. Nagios 
> wants to back up the status.log by renaming it to status.sav and moving it 
> to /var/tmp/nagios.
> 
> For some mysterious reasons /var/tmp/nagios directory disappears and so he 
> can not backup status.sav. But the message we get is something else.
> 
> Q1) Why does the /var/tmp/nagios directory (tmpfile setting in nagios.cfg) 
> disappears?
> 

What version are you running? It's getting time to move users to 2.0

> Q2) The message is misleading. Perhaps we should change it.
> 

Not really. The message is from the gui, which tries to read the file 
/var/log/nagios/status.log but can't find it (or access it). Any other 
error message is bound to be less accurate.

> Q3) In the nagios start-up script, there is a variable 
> NagiosTmp=/var/log/nagios/nagios.tmp. Is this related to tmpfile setting 
> in nagios.cfg? Perhaps this was the problem?

Read the script. If I were to have written it (I've rolled my own, the 
original one wasn't working so good), I would have exported it to $TMP 
and $TMPDIR before starting nagios to make sure it falls back to the 
same path (a bit stupid really, but it prevents sym/hard link clobbering).

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