Nagios thinks the archive logs are empty but they are not.

[John Andrunas]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, John Andrunas<john at andrunas.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Marc Powell<marc at ena.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2009, at 12:23 PM, John Andrunas wrote:
>>
>>> When using the reporting functions in Nagios I can only view the
>>> current days logs/statistics, anything beyond that is empty (on the
>>> web interface).  The log path and permissions all seem to be good, and
>>> I can see that the files do contain information.
>>>
>>> ls -al /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 3178106 Jul  7 10:09 /usr/local/nagios/
>>> var/nagios.log
>>>
>>> ls -al /usr/local/nagios/var/archives/nagios-07-06-2009-00.log
>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 57943 Jul  5 23:59
>>> /usr/local/nagios/var/archives/nagios-07-06-2009-00.log
>>
>> How about permissions on the /usr/local/nagios/var/archives directory?
>> Is SELinux enabled?
>>
>> Does the value of log_rotation_method in nagios.cfg match the rotation
>> method indicated by the actual archive files?
>>
>> --
>> Marc
>>
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>
> drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios apache    4096 Jul  7 00:00 archives
>
> no SELinux
>
> log_rotaion is d which seems to correspond to the contents of the files.
>
> The webUI seems to be looking in the right file/path, it just doesn't
> show any contents.  Is there any way to increase the log level of the
> Nagios Daemon?  I didn't see anything in nagios.cfg
>
> --
> John
>

upon further investigation it appears that while my log files are not
empty they have been stripped of everything except for the CURRENT
SERVICE STATE  Any thoughts on what would strip the rest of the log
files (alerts, etc) on rotation?

-- 
John

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