Nagios 3.0b5 - ePN and perl caching [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Andreas Ericsson]

Stanley.Hopcroft at Dest.gov.au wrote:
> Dear Larry,
> 
> I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
> 
>> Message: 9
>> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:01:41 -0700
>> From: "Larry Low" <llow at telesphere.com>
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0b5 - ePN and perl caching
>>
>> The problem I am having is with subroutines inside of perl scripts ran
> 
>> under the ePN.  If a subroutine is defined the next time the script or
> 
>> similar script is executed the ePN compile fails with a duplicate 
>> subroutine reported as the problem.
>>
>> I believe this problem does not exist under the 2.x code.
> 
> Do you mean that, after you change a plugin that Nagios is running, ePN
> fails to compile the modified plugin with this (spurious) error code ?
> 
> If so, I am running 2.9 and have this problem.
> 
> Reluctantly I have found that the only way to deal with this is restart
> Nagios after a plugin mod. 
> 

Umm, wouldn't it be enough to just stash away the mtime of the plugin when
it's run and re-cache it whenever it's been modified?

It seems straightforward enough, but perhaps I've missed something?

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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