--On Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:29 AM -0800 Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This changes the currend directory to "/". I want to have files used by monitors be referenced relative to the base directory. It worked fine without using -f.
The hostgroup members I use for some custom monitors are actually filenames. I don't want to have to prepend the base directory.
What is the reason for the "cd /"? What do I loose by not using -f when running from inittab?
Thanks for any help, Michael Vogt
I suggest storing those files in the MON state directory, and using the MON_STATEDIR environment variable that is passed to monitor scripts to find the files.
The primary reason that daemons change their working directory is avoid having a running daemon have its working directory in a network mounted filesystem, or in a filesystem you might want to unmount.
-David
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