Can't get rid of old config

[Derek Scollon]

Marc,

Thanks very much. I checked again and had indeed missed one process.
Killing this and restarting has fixed the problem.

Derek Scollon
Scotweb Solutions Ltd.

Tuesday, July 8, 2003, 6:32:08 PM, you wrote:

MP> Are you absolutely _sure_ you killed all the nagios processes? It really
MP> sounds like at least one remained. That's classic behavior as one will
MP> update the status file with the new information and the other will
MP> re-write the status file with the old information. You might also try
MP> deleting your status.sav file after stopping nagios, but I think this is
MP> much less likely to be the cause.

MP> --
MP> Marc

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Derek Scollon [mailto:dscollon at scotwebsolutions.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:18 PM
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> 
>> nagios-users,
>> 
>> I've just been making some changes to my network and altered my Nagios
>> config last night to reflect this. The old config checked 18 services,
>> mostly HTTP checks. The new config has 37 checks, mostly pings.
>> 
>> After restarting the process (and manually stopping and starting to
>> make sure), I'm getting strange results from the web interface. On any
>> of the report screens, it will sometimes show the 37 new checks and
>> sometimes the 18 old ones. There is no consistency to this. If you let
>> the screen refresh for a while, it will randomly show one or the
>> other. Looking at the scheduling queue also switches randomly between
>> showing the new PINGs scheduled and the old HTTP checks.
>> 
>> I've turned off state retention in case this caused it but it made no
>> difference. I'm running Nagios 1.0 on RedHat 8 and have been doing so
>> for at least 6 months with no problems until now.
>> 
>> Any ideas how I get rid of the old config which seems to be hanging
>> around?
>> 
>> Derek Scollon
>> Scotweb Solutions Ltd.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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