check_nagios and system log

[Demetri Mouratis]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, chiel wrote:

> check_nagios -e 5 -F /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log -C
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
>
> -e, --expires=INTEGER
>    Minutes aging after which logfile is considered stale
>
>
> Just raise -e

I found that raising -e *and* setting:

retention_update_interval=1

worked for me.

Without the retention tweak, I was seeing nagios run for 15 minutes 
without updating its status.log and that is too long of an outage for me 
to live with.

Hope that helps.

-D

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