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Xymon crashes

list Buchan Milne
Tue, 3 May 2011 12:49:45 +0200
Message-Id: <user-e9e4cebed770@xymon.invalid>

On Saturday, 30 April 2011 17:55:50 Henrik Størner wrote:
So I uninstalled Xymon, deleted everyting related to it and then
installed a fresh copy of Xymon 4.3.2 (also via the port-collection)
The installation goes fine, but when I start it up, the html files aren't
generated.
It seems that xymond crashes for reasons I don't understand

I did some digging and I see the following:

xymonlaunch.log:

2011-04-09 23:39:33 xymonlaunch starting
2011-04-09 23:39:33 Loading tasklist configuration from
/usr/local/www/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg
2011-04-09 23:39:33 Cannot open directory ^T<C2> (<C6><B1>
Looks like something weird in your configuration - that "directory" name
doesn't look right. Check your configuration files - especially the
xymonserver.cfg and tasks.cfg files, this is something that happens very
early in the setup.

Maybe tasks.cfg has a "directory" include pointing to a non-existing
directory. Maybe xymonserver.cfg is missing or unreadable.

Maybe your config files are not ascii, but in UTF-16 format.
No. I have seen this before, and I forgot to note it.

In my case there was a permissions problem on either the directory, or a file 
in the directory. The function handling this does not catch errors in opening 
the file.

Regards,
Buchan