<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">BUT, now I see tonnes of performance data in the /usr/local/pnp4nagios/var/spool directory<br>
how come they don't get deleted?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>The files in the spool directory usually gets deleted every few seconds.  Can you try:<br><br># service npcd restart <br><br><br></div></div>