Nagios Logfiles being compressed on SLES11

[Getchell, Kristoffer M]

Christian

Many thanks for this - I knew it'd be something obvious, I just couldn't see
it for looking!

Kind regards,




Kris


On 09/04/2010 10:47, "Christian Schneemann" <schneemann at b1-systems.de>
wrote:

> On Friday 09 April 2010 11:43:33 am Christian Schneemann wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> 
>> On Friday 09 April 2010 10:47:42 am Getchell, Kristoffer M wrote:
>>> Dear List
>>> 
>>> I'm hoping someone can help me out.  We're running Nagios 3.0.6 on SLES
>>> 11 and I'm having an issue with the archived logfiles being compressed.
>>> The archive of logfiles is located in the /var/log/nagios/archives
>>> directory and they are set to be cycled daily by Nagios.  Logrotate has
>>> no entries for the Nagios directory.  However, every night the files are
>>> being BZip2 compressed and I can't figure out what is causing this.
>>> 
>>> Anyone got any ideas?  I've been looking at it so long that I'm sure I'm
>>> missing the obvious cause of this behaviour, but can't see what it is!
>> 
>> have a look in the /etc/cron.d/ directory, there should be the file that's
>> causing this.
> or /etc/cron.weekly/nagios but that should just do this ones a week...
> 
>> you can simply delete the file or move it to a backup place.
>> 
>> Regards,
>>  Christian
>> 



    Kristoffer Getchell  |  Systems Analyst  |  Information Services  |  020
8417 2079




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