logfile rotation and showlog.cgi

[Patrick Stockton]

It was my understanding that the logs were supposed to be automatically rotated by the nagios 
application.  I just originally set up Nagios on a test box and the logs were rotating just fine.

Three days ago I just completed setting it up on our production box copying over the configuration 
files over exactly.  The logs do not seem to be rotating.

The log section of my nagios.cfg looks like this:

log_rotation_method=d

log_archive_path=/var/nagios/archives

use_syslog=1

log_notifications=1

log_service_retries=1

log_host_retries=1

log_event_handlers=1

log_external_commands=1

log_passive_service_checks=1

inter_check_delay_method=s

I have verified that the permissions on the archives folder matches my test setup.

I'm using gentoo and have used the latest ebuild.

Help here would be greatly appricated.

Thanks.



Jaap Hogenberg wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure if I missed something, but I found that
> the showlog.cgi does expect some logfile rotation to 
> be done on the nagios.log logfile.
> I have set up a cron job and a script to do this, but
> want some confirmation that this is the right thing to do.
> 
> Anyone care to comment ?    :-)
> 
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Jaap
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop
> FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools!
> Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today.
> http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click
> _______________________________________________
> Nagios-users mailing list
> Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop
FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools!
Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today.
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null