Re(2): Abnormal Program Termination

[jeff vier]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 17:23 -0400, Robert Snyder wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006, jeff vier wrote:
> 
> >Stop Nagios.
> >
> >Kill all the zombie Nagios processes.
> >
> >Start Nagios.
> >
> >Done.
> 
> Thanks. That did the trick. 
> 
> What is the best way to update nagios once you have made changes to
> the .cfg files. I had been using stop/start. But I am guessing that is
> what gave me all the zombie processes. Is it better form to just use the
> reload and force-reload commands?

I wrote some extra logic into the init script to wait for the processes
to die (echoing a dot every second it waits..........).

If it doesn't die efficiently, I open another SSH session and manually
kill -9 the hung process(es).

I don't know if reload would work or not, though.
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