alerts

[Andreas Ericsson]

Brian Loe wrote:
> On 1/29/07, Josh Yost <Josh.Yost at epsiia.com> wrote:
> 
> When I kill the nagios process (there's only one according to "ps fax
> | grep nagios") the lock file is removed.
> 
> I did just notice something interesting though, with the permissions,
> are they correct?
> /usr/local/nagios/etc # ls -altr ../var/
> total 484
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios nagios      6 Jan 29 09:59 nagios.lock
> -rw-rw-r--   1 nagios nagios 145469 Jan 29 10:00 status.dat
> drwxrwxr-x   4 nagios nagios    344 Jan 29 10:00 .
> 
> The lock file doesn't have write permissions for, what, group?

It doesn't need to. Nagios manages it alone and no other group can
touch it anyway as it obtains a file-lock on it.

> Is this
> thing some how looked at or..whatever...when an alert is sent?

No. The lock-file is there to make sure that you can't start another
nagios instance while one is already running.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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