check_nagios + MySQL = Nagios possible not running?

[Alex Kuehne]

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Steven L. Kohrs [mailto:steve at dtnspeed.net]
 > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:31 AM
 > To: Nagios Mailing List
 > Subject: [Nagios-users] check_nagios + MySQL = Nagios possible not
 > running?
 >
 >
 > In researching why I too was receiving the "Nagios process may not be
 > running" message, I came across a question.  If I'm using
 > MySQL to store
 > my status information, will status.log ever get written to?

I have all my stuff in a MySQL database and status.log gets written, at 
least one time per hour.

 > The check_nagios script compares the last timestamp from within this
 > file to determining whether Nagios is running, correct?  Hence, I'll
 > always receive the warning that the status log was updated too far in
 > the past.

Make sure the nagios process have write permission to its logfile. Also 
test whether your check_nagios command is set up properly.

Best Regards
Alex Kuehne

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