reading configs real-time??

[Marc Powell]

The nagios daemon only reads the config files on startup and not again.
The CGI's, however need to read them for _every_ page that's displayed.
That's because each CGI called starts, reads the configs, sends the html
it's supposed to and then dies. It's just the nature of the HTTP
protocol. Nagios would need to be written to support SpeedyCGI or some
other CGI caching daemon which I believe is being looked at for an
undetermined future release.

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bishop, Dean [mailto:dean.bishop at tcdsb.org]
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 2:17 PM
> To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: [Nagios-users] reading configs real-time??
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> 	i was wondering if anyone else has experienced this and/or had
an
> explaination.
> 
> When i open the config files and start modifying them while Nagios is
> running, i often get errors on the web page stating that i don't have
> permission to see the configs.  It seems like the files are open and
> locked.
> 
> i was under the impression that the files were not read except during
the
> startup.  Guess i am wrong.
> 
> so can i safely assume that the config's are not cached in memory at
> startup
> and that Nagios actually reads the configs to get information on what
to
> check next??
> 
> this doesn't see very efficient.  Am i understanding wrong??
> 
> thanks,
> dean
> 
> 
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