nagios cvs and perfdata bug

[Andreas Ericsson]

Yves Mettier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed 2 bugs with nagios (cvs snapshot 2.0a1 downloaded today 2004.10.01 08am GMT+1):
> 
> 1st bug :
> ---------
> if perfdata files are not defined in nagios.cfg, nagios will crash (SIGSEGV).
> Enable perfdata, but disable the following 2 lines and it will crash
> 
> host_perfdata_file=/opt/nagios/var/host-perfdata
> service_perfdata_file=/opt/nagios/var/service-perfdata
> 

This was fixed yesterday.

> 2nd bug :
> ---------
> Now, I consider that those files are defined.
> If I start nagios with nothing in /opt/nagios/var (except archive/ and rw/), nagios will
> run, but nagios -d won't. Workaround : touch service-perfdata; touch host-perfdata
> 

Did you look up the reason? This has the 'feel' of a permission error on 
the directory where the files should be stored.

> When the files are defined and created, everything is working well. Thanks Ethan and all :)
> 
> 
> $ grep perf nagios.cfg |egrep -v "^#"
> perfdata_timeout=5
> process_performance_data=0
> host_perfdata_file=/opt/nagios/var/host-perfdata
> service_perfdata_file=/opt/nagios/var/service-perfdata
> 
> If you need more info to reproduce the bug, please ask.
> I don't know nagios enough yet to provide a patch. One day maybe ? :)
> 
> Yves
> 

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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