Configuration management maybe (puppet, chef et al)? Also, I recently croned collectd restarts as it was found out there are memory leaks.
b. On 23 May 2013 16:23, Joaquin Cuenca Abela <joaq...@cuencaabela.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 with collectd 5.3.0 and running collectd with > collectdmon. Every few hours (sometimes only a few minutes after a > restart), my /etc/collectd/collectd.conf is overwritten by a default > version of this file. > > These changes are close in time to some collectd restarts. In this example > the file was written 1 minute after the last collectd restart: > > root@eu4:/etc/collectd# ls -ld collectd.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16457 May 23 13:37 collectd.conf > > May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: Exiting normally. > May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: collectd: Stopping 5 read > threads. > May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: ping plugin: Shutting down > thread. > May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: email: accept() failed: Bad > file descriptor > May 23 13:36:12 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: collectd: Stopping 5 write > threads. > May 23 13:36:12 ns2281597 collectdmon[27024]: Info: collectd terminated > with exit status 0 > May 23 13:36:12 ns2281597 collectdmon[27024]: Info: shutting down > collectdmon > May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: cpufreq plugin: Found 8 CPUs > May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: Initialization complete, > entering read-loop. > May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: rrdtool plugin: Adjusting > "RandomTimeout" to 0.000 seconds. > May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: tcpconns plugin: Reading from > netlink succeeded. Will use the netlink method from now on. > May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: mysql plugin: Successfully > connected to database thumbrit at server Localhost via UNIX socket (server > version: 5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.1-log, protocol version: 10) > > Has anybody experienced before these overwrites? is it normal to have > collectd restarting every few hours? Any way to prevent this file being > overwritten? > > Thanks! > > -- > Joaquin Cuenca Abela > > _______________________________________________ > collectd mailing list > collectd@verplant.org > http://mailman.verplant.org/listinfo/collectd > >
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