On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 17:23 -0400, Robert Snyder wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006, jeff vier wrote: > > >Stop Nagios. > > > >Kill all the zombie Nagios processes. > > > >Start Nagios. > > > >Done. > > Thanks. That did the trick. > > What is the best way to update nagios once you have made changes to > the .cfg files. I had been using stop/start. But I am guessing that is > what gave me all the zombie processes. Is it better form to just use the > reload and force-reload commands?
I wrote some extra logic into the init script to wait for the processes to die (echoing a dot every second it waits..........). If it doesn't die efficiently, I open another SSH session and manually kill -9 the hung process(es). I don't know if reload would work or not, though.
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