nagios bailing out log messages - cause now known

[Morris, Patrick]

> So I guess the question now is, why would this check fail 
> every ten minutes?
> 
> The script:
> #!/bin/bash
> plugindir="/usr/local/nagios/libexec"
> cmdstart="/etc/init.d/nagios start"
> #Check nagios with check_nagios plugin
> $plugindir/check_nagios -e 5 -F 
> /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log -C /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> 
> if [ "${?}" != 0 ] ; then
>   echo "CRITICAL:Nagios not found running..."
> $cmdstart
>  else
> echo "OK:Nagios runnning..."
> fi
> exit

How often is nagios.log updating?  If it's less than every five minutes
this check will fail.

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