<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> /etc/init.d/nagios stop sleep 30 ps –ef|grep nagios echo “now stopping sendmail” /etc/init.d/sendmail restart sleep 30 echo “now calling named” /etc/init.d/named echo “now starting nagios” /etc/init.d/nagios start This should give you a pretty good idea as to where the script is failing, based on what echo statements get processed. If you’re not running the script interactively then redirect the output to a log, i.e., /usr/local/nagios/bin/mynagios_script > /usr/local/nagios/tmp/mynagios_script.log. These are basic script debugging techniques. You may do well getting yourself a good shell scripting reference guide. Todd -----Original Message----- From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of enrico fanti Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:19 AM To: Todd Barbera Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios father, script son ?? Hi Todd, I tried your hint, but isn't ok. Wath do you mean with "you could put in a process grep in the script" ? Thank you Enrico Todd Barbera wrote: <pre style='margin-left:.5in' wrap="">Hi Enrico,</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>Try putting in the following:</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>/etc/init.d/nagios stop</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>sleep 30</pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>echo "now to stop sendmail"</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>/etc/init.d/sendmail restart</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>sleep 30</pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>echo "now to call named"</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>/etc/init.d/named</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>This will help determine if the script is truly dying because the nagios</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>process stops. 30 seconds should be far more time needed for nagios to</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>shutdown, although I suppose you could put in a process grep in the script</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>to verify.</pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Todd</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>----- Original Message ----- </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>From: "enrico fanti" <a href="mailto:e.fanti@pointercom.it"><e.fanti@pointercom.it></a></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>To: <a href="mailto:jpratt@norwich.edu"><jpratt@norwich.edu></a>; <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net"><nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net></a></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 7:18 AM</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios father, script son ??</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre> <blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' type=cite><pre style='margin-left:.5in' wrap="">Hi,</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>I tried that but it doesn't work..</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>It seems to be very stange case...</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Jamie Pratt wrote:</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre> <blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' type=cite><pre style='margin-left:.5in' wrap="">did you try tagging an & on the end of the command line to fork it off</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>into the background? sometimes this will help..</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>regards,</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>jamie</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>-- </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>James Pratt</pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>Unix Systems Administrator</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Norwich University - Information Technology</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="mailto:jpratt@norwich.edu">jpratt@norwich.edu</a> | 1-802-485-2532</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>enrico fanti wrote:</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre> <blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' type=cite><pre style='margin-left:.5in' wrap="">Hi to all</pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>I have this problem</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>Nagios executes a script.</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>This script have to restart the Nagios process in this way:</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>/etc/init.d/nagios stop</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>/etc/init.d/sendmail restart</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>/etc/init.d/named</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>/etc/init.d/nagios start</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>The problem is that when the script execute this sequence, it</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>executes only:</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>/etc/init.d/nagios stop</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>/etc/init.d/sendmail stop</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>It seems that the father Nagios execute the son script, but this</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>script dies when the father dies (Nagios).</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Is there a way to run the son script separately from the father</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Thak you</pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Enrico</pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre></blockquote> <pre style='margin-left:.5in' wrap=""> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre></blockquote> <pre style='margin-left:.5in' wrap="">-- </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>=======================================</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Enrico Fanti</pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>PointerCom s.p.a - <a href="http://www.pointercom.it">http://www.pointercom.it</a></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Via Francesco De Sanctis, 9</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>00195 Roma - ITALY</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>tel. +39-06-37591259</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>fax +39-06-37591202</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="mailto:e.fanti@pointercom.it">e.fanti@pointercom.it</a></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>================================</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre></blockquote> <pre style='margin-left:.5in' wrap=""> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre> <pre style='margin-left:.5in'>-- </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>=======================================</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Enrico Fanti</pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'>PointerCom s.p.a - <a href="http://www.pointercom.it">http://www.pointercom.it</a></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>Via Francesco De Sanctis, 9</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>00195 Roma - ITALY</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>tel. +39-06-37591259</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>fax +39-06-37591202</pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="mailto:e.fanti@pointercom.it">e.fanti@pointercom.it</a></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>================================ </pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'> </pre><pre style='margin-left: .5in'> </pre></div> </body> </html>