<div dir="ltr"> Mark, thanks a lot for this explanation and the hints. I think I'll have a look at the event broker thing. thanks! Karl <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Marc Powell <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> On Sep 8, 2008, at 9:59 AM, K-L Reinhard wrote: > Hi, > > I'm really unexpierenced with nagios but I have the following task. > We have to fire on a script, after the internal logrotating of > nagios is done. I know, it would be a lot simpler if we use lograte, > but we don't -.-. </div>... and shouldn't. Using logrotate will break nagios reporting capabilities. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > Is there a way to solve this matter with an event handler or is it > possible to define a postscript? Maybe there's a way to call the > logrotate function manually ? </div>Yes to the first, but not trivially and not as an event handler, no to the second and no to the third (can't be done and it would break nagios reporting capabilities). It's an unusual request so there aren't any easy-to-use capabilities... Nagios doesn't provide an event handler type of action for log rotation but _does_ notify event broker modules of the log rotation event (EVENT_LOG_ROTATION, I believe). You could write an event broker module that listens for that event and takes appropriate action. Alternately, nagios does log the rotation event to nagios.log as 'LOG ROTATION:'. You could maintain a continuous tail of the file looking for a sudden decrease in the log file size, inode change and/or that entry and take appropriate action. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world <a href="http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/" target="_blank">http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div> </div>