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xymon hostdata module going rogue

list John Thurston
Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:16:00 -0800
Message-Id: <user-fe19ad6efa56@xymon.invalid>

On 8/28/2015 12:45 PM, John Thurston wrote:
On 6/10/2015 9:01 AM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:
Hi everyone,

I have a xymon server running 4.3.21 that seems to be accumulating
processes like these:

hobbit   28430  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
[xymond_hostdata] <defunct>

hobbit   28435  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
[xymond_hostdata] <defunct>

hobbit   28440  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
[xymond_hostdata] <defunct>

hobbit   28444  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
[xymond_hostdata] <defunct>

hobbit   28449  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
[xymond_hostdata] <defunct>

hobbit   28452  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00
[xymond_hostdata] <defunct>

It seemed related to drop messages . . .
Hey, I think I'm seeing the same thing on Solaris with 4.3.21

I've ended up here after a customer let me know that email alerts were
not working as expected. After a few hours of digging around, I decided
that the alert daemon was failing to retrieve hostnames and failing
miserably.

Have other people seen this behavior?
I have duplicated this behavior on another xymon server on Solaris. It 
certainly looks like this behavior breaks the alert daemon. Fortunately, 
I "drop" hosts in batches so can restart Xymon at that time, but this is 
still pretty icky.

J.C., do you know if your patch made it into the code-base?

Has anyone else tested this patch? If so, on what operating systems?

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