Plugin that will test nagios.cfg

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Hugo van der Kooij
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 3:30 PM
> To: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin that will test nagios.cfg
> 
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Marc Powell wrote:
> 
> > If you can reliably reproduce this with a '/etc/init.d/nagios
reload' or
> > 'restart' then you should report it as a bug. Nagios is meant to not
> > crash or bail a running copy if the new config is bad.
> 
> If nagios can not start due to a broken config then a restart WILL
die. A
> restart is nothing short of a stop and start of the program.

Then you are not using the distribution init script and you must include
that logic yourself. Read it or read back in this thread. The only
possible way it should die is if nagios -v didn't detect a fatal error.
That would be a bug.
 
If a person doesn't use the distribution init script then they are
responsible for ensuring that the config is good before restart.

--
Marc


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