Using check_nagios plugin

[Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)]

I am running nagios version 2.0rc2 with nagios-plugins version 1.4.1.
In the commands file I issue a local command on the server using the
check_nagios plugin like this:

$USER1$/check_nagios -F /var/log/nagios/status.log -e 5 -C
/usr/bin/nagios

>From the web interface I get the following message:

Nagios problem: located 2 processes, status log updated 1139840775
seconds ago

If I issue the command on the server, that is, as;

/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios -F /var/log/nagios/status.log -e 5
-C /usr/bin/nagios

I get the message:

Nagios problem: located 1 process, status log updated 1139840299 seconds
ago

>From this I have 3 questions:

a) why the difference in the number of processes
b) why does the log file use timestamps using the number of seconds
since 1st Jan 1970 (I could not find a configuration option to control
this)
c) why the warning about the update of the status log file

Many thanks in advance

Jonathan Wheeler
e-Science Centre
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory


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