NSCA daemon never writes to nagios.cmd or nsca.dump

Noah Leaman noah at mac.com
Thu Jan 22 01:07:23 CET 2004


I forgot to provide platform/version stats...

NSCA 2.4
Nagios 1.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.2 (on both central and distributed Nagios 
servers)

If anyone has any indication of where my trouble could be it would be 
greatly appreciated.

-- 
Noah

On Jan 21, 2004, at 1:33 AM, Noah Leaman wrote:

> Help!
>
> I cannot get the NSCA daemon to write anything to either the 
> nagios.cmd or the nsca.dump files.
> They are both defined in the nsca.cfg like so:
>
> command_file=/Users/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
> alternate_dump_file=/Users/nagios/var/rw/nsca.dump
>
> I turned on debug (debug=1) and all I get in the syslog is this:
>
> Jan 21 01:19:00 bell nsca[15791]: Handling the connection...
> Jan 21 01:19:00 bell nsca[15791]: End of connection...
> Jan 21 01:20:00 bell nsca[15791]: Handling the connection...
> Jan 21 01:20:00 bell nsca[15791]: End of connection...
> Jan 21 01:21:00 bell nsca[15791]: Handling the connection...
> Jan 21 01:21:00 bell nsca[15791]: End of connection...
>
> this is for each time the send_nsca is submitted on the remote 
> (distributed) nagios host. nothing ever gets written to nagios.cmd and 
> nsca.dump is never even created. The fact that nsca.dump never gets 
> created seems like a clue of some sort. I do have external commands 
> enabled and they work in all other respect. the nsca daemon is running 
> as the user nagios and can write to nagios.cmd and the directory itt's 
> in.
>
> Any ideas what could be wrong?
>



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