<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7651.59"> <TITLE>Current States logged upon log rotation</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  I recently upgraded from 1.0b to 2.7. I noticed that immediately after my daily log rotation, the current state of all hosts and services is entered in the log file. As I have thousands of hosts/services, this makes the log (in my case) unnecessarily large, and was hoping to find an option to prevent those states from being logged. Here is a sample of entries I am referring to: Informational Message[03-07-2007 00:00:00] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: <hidden>;Ping;OK;HARD;1;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 29.40 ms Informational Message[03-07-2007 00:00:00] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: <hidden>;Ping;OK;HARD;1;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 73.01 ms Informational Message[03-07-2007 00:00:00] CURRENT HOST STATE: <hidden>;UP;HARD;1;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 10.64 ms Informational Message[03-07-2007 00:00:00] CURRENT HOST STATE: <hidden>;UP;HARD;1;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 28.26 ms The documentation references the "log_initial_states" entry in the main configuration file, which seems like it should control this option. But as you can see by my config file below, it's disabled. Should I be looking at a different option(s)? Thanks. cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/host_templates.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/commands.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/timeperiods.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/contactgroups.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/contacts.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/service_templates.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/services.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/servicegroups.cfg resource_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/resources.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/serviceextinfo.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/dependencies.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/escalations.cfg log_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log temp_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.tmp status_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat aggregate_status_updates=1 status_update_interval=30 nagios_user=nagios nagios_group=nagios enable_notifications=1 execute_service_checks=1 accept_passive_service_checks=0 enable_event_handlers=0 log_rotation_method=d log_archive_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/archives check_external_commands=1 command_check_interval=-1 command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd downtime_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/downtime.dat comment_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/comment.dat lock_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock retain_state_information=1 state_retention_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/retention.dat retention_update_interval=15 use_retained_program_state=1 use_syslog=0 log_notifications=1 log_service_retries=1 log_host_retries=1 log_event_handlers=1 log_initial_states=0 log_external_commands=1 log_passive_checks=0 service_interleave_factor=s service_reaper_frequency=10 interval_length=60 service_check_timeout=60 host_check_timeout=60 notification_timeout=60 date_format=us illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*"|'<>?,()= illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$^&"|'<> object_cache_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache execute_host_checks=1 service_inter_check_delay_method=s use_retained_scheduling_info=0 accept_passive_host_checks=0 host_inter_check_delay_method=s host_perfdata_file_mode=a service_perfdata_file_mode=a host_perfdata_file_processing_interval=0 service_perfdata_file_processing_interval=0 </BODY> </HTML>