normal_check_interval misbehaving?

[Jason Marshall]

> active-checks should be a template, so there wouldn't be a check_command
> for it. normally your active check won't go stale, because they're
> scheduled to run more often than the freshness threshold. check your
> logs for signs of:

I have a check_command for my passive checks, but it just exits with a 
warning status, and a statement that the check has gone stale.  I think 
this is normal, but it's been so long since I set this up originally (back 
in 2002) that a lot of the details are lost in the fog.

> this still doesn't explain why the checks are run every 10 minutes
> though, if freshness threshold is set to 5 minutes.

It doesn't, but I can say with certainty that the check hasn't run for at 
least 25 minutes now since I restarted Nagios without the freshness stuff.

It may be fixed (assuming it runs again at 9am my time, which is in about 
15 minutes), and I think I can live without the freshness checking of 
active services if there's no obvious workaround.

> have you confirmed that there isn't another nagios process running, as
> directed from another reply to this thread?

Yes:

[root at nagios3 nagios]# ps -ef |grep nagios |grep -v mysql
nagios   10703     1  0 07:55 ?        00:00:01 /usr/local/nagios-3.0.6/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios-3.0.6/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios   11204     1  0 08:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nsca -s -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nsca.cfg
root     16035  4747  0 08:28 pts/2    00:00:00 grep nagios
[root at nagios3 nagios]#

Thanks again for your help, Hiren and everyone else!

---
Jason Marshall, Unix Geek, Kelman Technologies, Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada.

   From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680):
     "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."

   "I have great faith in fools:
      Self confidence my friends call it."  -Edgar Allan Poe


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