Nagios External Commands

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joerg Linge
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:47 AM
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios External Commands
> 
> Gavin Williams schrieb:
> > HI there,

> > I can see the commands being written to Nagios.cmd in
/opt/nagio/var/rw/
> > however they don't go anywhere from there...


> Your nagios.cmd is a regular file and _not_ a named pipe.
> This file is not created by nagios!
> 
> Please delete this file and do a nagios restart.
> The pipe should be created automaticaly.

OP: also note that if you cat, tail or otherwise view the contents of
the named pipe as you did above, you will remove the contents of the
pipe from the queue and nagios will not see the commands.

--
Marc

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