This is funny because I have script called 'sanity_check' that runs Nagios with the -v switch to check my configs :)
________________________________________ From: C. Bensend [be...@bennyvision.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 2:21 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Re-send: Notificaitons after the commit > Running nagios -v nagios.cfg haves Nagios verify the configuration, this > is > best practice because otherwise you risk a typo stopping your monitoring > for > the time it takes for you to correct the configuration :-) ... > Tip: don't use restart when you just want Nagios to load new > configuration.Your init script should handle reload instead, which will > send > a HUP signal to Nagios. This means that Nagios doesn't stop and start back > up, it only re-reads the configuration files. > > So, for your specific problem, I think you'd be fine by simply using this > instead: > > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg > /etc/init.d/nagios reload For exactly this reason, I have had two command aliases for years: preflight (which does a -v against the configuration file to check the sanity of my Nagios configuration) reload (which sends the Nagios process a SIGHUP) I *always* do a preflight before the reload, just to be sure my configuration is sane, no matter how minor a change I made. It's a good habit to be in. Benny -- "Show me on the doll where the marketing touched you." -- "Mally" on Fazed.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null