Odd errors in nagios.log

[Jim Avery]

2009/4/16 Martin A. Brooks <martin at antibodymx.net>:
> Hi
>
> I've recently been seeing many of the following kind of errors appearing
> nagios.log:
>
> [1239869767] Error: Unable to rename file
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkSfWj1n' to
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/cs7QqHJ': No such file or directory
> [1239869767] Warning: Unable to move file
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkSfWj1n' to check results queue.
> [1239869767] Error: Unable to rename file
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkb2W7d3' to
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/cxj4rUo': No such file or directory
> [1239869767] Warning: Unable to move file
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkb2W7d3' to check results queue.
> [1239869767] Error: Unable to rename file
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkMroMQn' to
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/cwRtKxJ': No such file or directory
> [1239869767] Warning: Unable to move file
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkMroMQn' to check results queue.
> [1239869767] Error: Unable to rename file
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkb2W7d3' to
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/csiU5Uo': No such file or directory
> [1239869767] Error: Unable to rename file
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkMroMQn' to
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/cj9BayJ': No such file or directory
> [1239869767] Warning: Unable to move file
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkMroMQn' to check results queue.
> [1239869767] Warning: Unable to move file
> '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkb2W7d3' to check results queue.
>
>
> The only two references I can find for this error are:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg22963.html
>
> which is inconclusive, and my own Debian bug report at:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522538
>
> (you can see nagios package and version details here, too).
>
> Any insights as to what might be causing these errors?
>
> Regards
>
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You don't have more than one instance of the Nagios daemon running do
you?  Try stopping the Nagios daemon, make sure all instances of
nagios are stopped (using ps -ef | grep nagios), and kill any which
remain then start the Nagios daemon using /etc/init.d/nagios start .

hth,

Jim

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