alerts

[Brian Loe]

On 1/29/07, Josh Yost <Josh.Yost at epsiia.com> wrote:
> > Program End[01-22-2007 11:35:01] Lockfile
> > '/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock' is held by PID 8228. Bailing
> > out...
> >
>
> Try killing all nagios processes, erase the lock file, and start Nagios
> again.
>
> See if that helps at all.

When I kill the nagios process (there's only one according to "ps fax
| grep nagios") the lock file is removed.

I did just notice something interesting though, with the permissions,
are they correct?
/usr/local/nagios/etc # ls -altr ../var/
total 484
-rw-rw-r--   1 nagios nagios    239 Jun 21  2006 downtime.dat
-rw-r--r--   1 nagios nagios      0 Aug 10 09:21 mail.log
drwxr-xr-x  10 nagios nagios    240 Sep 28 15:35 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 nagios nagios   1793 Jan 23 10:23 comments.dat
drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios nagios   8408 Jan 29 00:00 archives
drwxrwsr-x   2 nagios nagios     80 Jan 29 09:59 rw
-rw-------   1 nagios nagios 151347 Jan 29 09:59 retention.dat
-rw-r--r--   1 nagios nagios 123198 Jan 29 09:59 objects.cache
-rw-rw-r--   1 nagios nagios  45622 Jan 29 09:59 nagios.log
-rw-r--r--   1 nagios nagios      6 Jan 29 09:59 nagios.lock
-rw-rw-r--   1 nagios nagios 145469 Jan 29 10:00 status.dat
drwxrwxr-x   4 nagios nagios    344 Jan 29 10:00 .

The lock file doesn't have write permissions for, what, group? Is this
thing some how looked at or..whatever...when an alert is sent? I
personally can't figure out what a lock file would have to do with
alerts but, what do I know...

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