Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lock file

[eric.berg at barclayscapital.com]

If you had any idea how difficult it is just to do the most basic system administration tasks in the environment within which we're working, you'd be shaking your head in empathetic embarassment.  Filling out tickets and -- get this: our company has an official state for our tickets referred to as "Chasing", which is when, after entering your ticket into this multi-million dollar ticket tracking system, you then have to manually pick up the phone, email, or walk over to bug the guy who should now act on the ticket.  It's a nightmare.  I built it.

That was intended to express the irony of my search for a solution to keep my monitoring system up.  I'm shocked that nagios can't tell the difference between a pid file that refers to a running process and one that refers to one that's not running any more.  It's the first thing about Nagios that's got my head scractching...besides the complex set of dependencies that you have to negotiate to do pretty much anything.

E

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcasale at activenetwerx.com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 12:13 PM
> To: 'Nagios Users List'
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after 
> reboot by lock file
> 
> >Alternatively, could you recommend a good system/resource 
> monitoring tool that would be able to let me know if nagios 
> is down and restart it automatically?
> 
> That's kind of funny...
> Why are you compiling nagios on a package based distro with 
> existing and current _properly_ built
> packages?
> 
> Look at rpmforge...
> 
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