Nagios dying

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I'm having the same problem with my installation of 2.7 on OpenBSD 4.0. It
dyes silently. 

I do notice in the logs it tries to restart after and can't find the .pid
file. 

[1174798800] LOG ROTATION: DAILY
[1174798800] LOG VERSION: 2.0

Then it dies, I have to manually restart it. Sometimes this shows up in the
log also

[1168546261] /var/run/nagios/nagios.pid does not exist (ENOENT)

I then look for the /var/run/nagios/ dir and its not there, so I 

Mkdir /var/run/nagios/
Chown _nagios:_nagios

And restart the daemon. 

My guess Israel, is that you got the installation from the packages on the
OpenBSD website, which has been packaged up as chroot version. I did the
same, then upgraded to 2.7, but followed the dir structure of the chroot
installation and I'm still having the problem. 

Does anyone know if there is a problem running Nagios in chroot? Or the fix
for our issue here? 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Rob Blake
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:35 PM
To: Israel Brewster
Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios dying



On 4/4/07, Israel Brewster <israel at frontierflying.com> wrote:

	A while ago I installed Nagios 2.4 on a somewhat minimal (don't
	remember the specs, but old) OpenBSD 4.0 box. For the most part, it
	appears to work fine- latency is a nice low .328 seconds on average,
	with an average execution time of 4 seconds. The execution time
might 
	be a bit high, but it doesn't appear to cause any issues. The only
	problem is that, from time to time, Nagios will simply die. The logs
	show normal operation right up to the time it dies, and there is no
	real indication that it isn't running, except that the last check
	times don't change and a look at the process list shows no Nagios
	processes. Now, I have written a script that checks for this and
	restarts Nagios if necessary, but it would of course be preferable
to 
	stop it from dying in the first place. I realize that this isn't
much
	information to go on (more presumably available on specific
request),
	but I was wondering if anyone had seen similar behavior and could
	give me an idea as to how to fix it? Thanks


As you say not much to go on. Obviously something is causing Nagios to die.
I've just had a quick look at the change list for later releases > 2.4 and
there are some bug fixes for seg faults which presumably could cause Nagios
to die silently. It may be worth updating to the latest and greatest version
to see if this solves your issue. If this isn't possible, then I guess an
inspection of the Nagios log file to see what it was doing last before it
died is in order. 

cheers

Rob




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