perfparse doesn't display hosts, services

[Andreas Ericsson]

John Christian wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. I stopped nagios and
> perfparsed, then started perfparse, changed the perms
> on the perfdata-service.log file, and started nagios.
> I repated this a few times while trying different
> perms on the pipe.
> 
> prwxrwxrwx   1 root     other          0 Sep 14 07:34
> perfdata-service.log
> 
> prwxrwxrwx   1 nagios   nagios         0 Sep 14 07:34
> perfdata-service.log
> 
> prw-r-----   1 nagios   nagios         0 Sep 14 07:40
> perfdata-service.log
> 
> I continue to receive the following error in
> nagios.log:
> 
> Warning: File
> '/usr/local/nagios/var/perfdata-service.log' could not
> be opened - service performance data will not be
> written to file!
> 
> Other ideas on what I'm missing?

Well, since Nagios claims it can't write to the *file*, and the inode is 
in fact a pipe, it might be causing some sort of error. I'm not very 
familiar with perfparse stuff, but I seem to remember something about 
having a cron-job run every once in a while that empties the perfparse 
data-file and submits it to the pipe (or some such).

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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