tags 296562 moreinfo thanks hi ryszard,
to make sure i'm understanding this correctly: On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:07:53AM +0100, Ryszard Lach wrote: > If nagios (running with database) fails because of some bad reason (e.g. > hardware problem, > segfault etc.) check_nagios_db doesn't claims that it's running. This is > what happens if I 'kill -9' nagios' pid: do you mean to say "check_nagios_db claims that it's running"? > This makes check_nagios_db unusable for nagios-DB monitoring and forces > the user to clear 'programstatus' table in database before nagios start. so, again, to make sure i'm understanding your report: if the nagios process crashes, but the database is still active, the check_nagios_db script finds the database still up and says everything's okay, but then doesn't check for the pid? if so, that shouldn't be too hard to change. sean --
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