<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Andreas Ericsson wrote: >I like the current behaviour, but I'd accept a patch to take 'only' or something >as an argument to "use_syslog" to make the behaviour you're talking about happen. > >Do note that history browsing won't work in the CGI's if nagios.log doesn't get >written at all, so this option should very, very clearly be marked in such a way >that unsuspecting new users don't shoot themselves in the foot. Recreating a >proper nagios.log from the syslog messages is ofcourse possible, but I'd rather >avoid having to try it if at all possible. Especially given most distributions >tendency to only keep syslog files around for four weeks before rotating them >into oblivion. Four weeks means users that want availability reports on a month >or so won't even realize the data they need isn't where it should be before it >doesn't exist anymore. Bad Thing(tm) indeed. I agree totally, but have a slightly related comment. When using a supervisory process manager, like runit runsv(dir), you really do not want any output to appear on the console. To my knowledge there is currently no way to run Nagios in the foreground and not have any output on the console. During startup you always get something similar to this: Nagios 3.0.6 Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.nagios.org">http://www.nagios.org</a>) Last Modified: 12-01-2008 License: GPL Nagios 3.0.6 starting... (PID=2071) Local time is Fri Jun 05 12:26:53 CEST 2009 My first expectation on use_syslog was at least to get rid of this output. Of cause, you may catch console messages when using a process supervisor and setup an alternative log daemon for them, but if you want them to end up in syslog that's quite awkward. Further more, redirection to /dev/null does not play well with process supervisors. use_syslog is probaly not the best fix for this, since you probably want to control the Nagios log output in conjuction with a process manager. Maybe a no_console or a --quiet startup flag is better suited. /S-G ________________________________________________________ Sven-Göran Bergh, Systemasis AB ________________________________________________________ </div></div></div> <hr size=1> Låna pengar utan säkerhet. <a href=http://www.kelkoo.se/c-100390123-lan-utan-sakerhet.html?partnerId=96915014>Sök och jämför lån hos Kelkoo.</a></body></html>