On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, user-87556346d4af@xymon.invalid wrote:
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On Mar 16, 2013, at 12:05 AM, user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid wrote:
Hi,
I am running the 4.3.10 rpms from terabithia.org on a Centos 6 machine.
Every time I reboot the machine xymon forgets all of the services that
are either
acked or disabled.
Is this expected behavior and if not how do I go about troubleshooting
it?
Regards,
Tom user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid Spamtrap address user-4d123f9c385b@xymon.invalid
Firstly, where is the ack directory? If it is in /tmp that would explain
them disappearing.
Steve
Actually, it might be simpler than that... :/
Long story short, there's a $XYMONRUNDIR patched in pointing to
(/var/run/xymon/) to differentiate certain daemon-controlled files for
SELinux purposes. Sockets and pid files are fine there, but checkpoint
files shouldn't be if they're expected to survive a reboot/crash (which
they are). xymond state will be recreated relatively soon, but the alert
checkpoint is gone and would be missed. Kind of surprised I hadn't caught
this, or it hadn't been reported by now...
Quick fix: Double check the --checkpoint-file and --restart options for
[xymond] and [alert] in /etc/xymon/tasks.cfg -- change them to point to
$XYMONTMP (default: /var/lib/xymon/tmp/ in the RPM) instead of
$XYMONRUNDIR.
FWIW, I noticed that there was a symlink in /var/lib/xymon/tmp that looks like
the following:
(bugs pts8) # ll /var/lib/xymon/tmp/xymond.chk
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 25 Sep 5 2012 /var/lib/xymon/tmp/xymond.chk -> /var/run/xymon/xymond.chk
(bugs pts8) #
Restarting xymon after modifying /etc/xymon/tasks.cfg nuked the symlink and
wrote the checkpoint file to /var/lib/xymon/tmp.
In addition, I found that --checkpoint-file under alert was already set to
$XYMONTMP/alert.chk.
This is almost certainly a packaging issue; I'll post a note on this on
the site and get a new RPM out soon.
I am going to reboot the machine later today. Will let you know is this
solves the issue.
Thanks for looking into this. I really appreciate the work you do on the
xymon rpms.
Regards,
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Tom user-dcee455aaab0@xymon.invalid Spamtrap address user-4d123f9c385b@xymon.invalid