nagios -d processes

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Wed Mar 10 02:25:26 CET 2004


On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Russell Thompson wrote:

> At 07:34 PM 9/03/2004 -0500, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> >On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Russell Thompson wrote:
> >
> > >
> >
> > >
> > > I have noticed that I now get quite a lot of "nagios -d
> > > /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg" processes running. I run nagios as a
> > > inetd service not as a daemon, so I'm not sure why this happens.
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> >
> >Nagios is not desgined to run under inetd - it does not listen for
> >anything.
> >
> >Surprised its worked so long...
> >
> >you should only have one nagios process showing the -d switch.
> 
> You're right of course :-)
> I was getting confused with nsca.
> 
> So if I am only meant to hae one nagios process with the -d switch showing, 
> does anyone know why i get a lot more?
> 


You will get more nagios processes as it spawns off a child for each 
service and host check.   That is normal.  The children are reaped based 
on service completion and nagios.cfg reaper entry.


-- 

-sg



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