<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5659" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=879594516-06102009><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks both for your replies, will look into o that process what ever it is</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Martin Melin [mailto:mmelin@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 06 October 2009 14:39<BR><B>To:</B> Nagios-Users Mailinglist<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nagios-users] Lots of Nagios Processes<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV>Yeah, the "nagios" part just means that the nagios user spawned "./update 500". My guess is that you have a check command defined that calls "./update", maybe the 500 is some kind of timeout? Check your command config file. <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Regards</DIV> <DIV>Martin Melin<BR><BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Marc Powell <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <DIV class=im><BR>On Oct 6, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Martyn wrote:<BR><BR>> Not sure what went off with this server last night but my processes<BR>> log below shows lots of Nagios entries, does any know why this would<BR>> happen and how I could prevent it in future<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV class=im>> nagios 10314 6691 0 09:09 pts/0 00:00:00 ./update 500<BR>> nagios 10315 6691 0 09:09 pts/0 00:00:00 ./update 500<BR>> nagios 10316 6691 0 09:09 pts/0 00:00:00 ./update 500<BR>> nagios 10320 6691 0 09:09 pts/0 00:00:00 ./update 500<BR><BR></DIV>What is 'update 500'? That's not a normal part of nagios and something<BR>you must have created/installed. It looks like the problem is with<BR>that program, not nagios.<BR><BR>--<BR>Marc<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA<BR>is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your<BR>developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay<BR>ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now!<BR><A href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf" target=_blank>http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf</A><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Nagios-users mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A><BR><A href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target=_blank>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A><BR>::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue.<BR>::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>