check_nagios -- not detecting status log update correctly

[Ben O'Hara]

On 11/29/06, frank <ratty at they.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Ben O'Hara wrote:
>
> > On 11/29/06, Terry <td3201 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Thanks for the reply.  Filesystem has 256G available and nagios is
> >> definitely running and is performing service checks.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Try a newer version of the plugins, looks like a problem i had a few
> > days ago where check_nagios is expecting to use /var/status.log but it
> > needs to use the status.dat file
> >
> > recompile the plugins and it should be fine.
> >
> > Ben
>
> Actually I'd lean more towards it being a case of "old and busted". When I
> hit this problem it wasn't a matter of the status.dat location (since "-F
> /path/to/status.file" is one of the _required_ CLI args). Upgrade to
> Plugins 1.4.3 and you'll be ok. If you don't want to upgrade all your
> plugins at once just compile the package and copy the check_nagios binary
> out instead of running "make install".
>

Yes, its a required arg but im sure the format of status.dat has
changed, it used to be status.log and im fairly sure it changed format
along with its name.

Ben
> -f
>
>
> >> On 11/29/06, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>> check that your filesystem isn't full, this happened to me recently, an
> >>> incentive to add a filesystem space check which I did!
> >>>
> >>> oh yeah, and silly but obvious, check your nagios is running...
> >>>
> >>> -h
> >>>
> >>> Hari Sekhon
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Terry wrote:
> >>>> [root at omautil01 ~]# date
> >>>> Wed Nov 29 10:03:49 CST 2006
> >>>>
> >>>> [root at foobar ~]# ls -l /var/log/nagios/status.dat
> >>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios 155812 Nov 29 10:03 /var/log/nagios/status.dat
> >>>>
> >>>> [root at foobar ~]# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios -e 5 -F
> >>>> /var/log/nagios/status.dat -C /usr/bin/nagios
> >>>> Nagios problem: located 1 process, status log updated 1164816202 seconds ago
> >>>>
> >>>> Any ideas?
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