installing Nagios on shared Debian box (Dreamhost)?

[Patrick Morris]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, RR wrote:

> >SpamAssassin and ClamAV aren't necessarily persistent processes.
> 
> 
> Hmmm...so, what if I only start up Nagios with cron and run it
> periodically?  Would that count as a persistent process?
> 
> Does Nagios support that sort of thing, and if so, would it work ok if I
> were to run it, say, every 20 minutes or so?

No, Nagios does not support being run as a periodic cron job.

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