[Nagios-users] Initial service checks too far into the future

[Alex Georgopoulos]

Using the rpm from dag's rpm http://dag.wieers.com/packages/nagios/nagios-1.2-2.1.el3.rf.i386.rpm repository I've noticed a very undesired behavior when changing or adding service checks to a host.  Whenever the interval changes it will shedule the next check out for over a year!   If I manual have nagios check the service it starts working like it should and the next check comes at the desired interval but the minute I change anything I have to manual re-check it to get the schedule correct again.  Here is an example of what I mean

Current Status:	OK
Status Information:	OK - HTTP/1.1 302 Redirect - 0.008 second response time
Current Attempt:	1/3
State Type:	HARD
Last Check Type:	ACTIVE
Last Check Time:	11-15-2005 12:36:13
Status Data Age:	0d 0h 33m 21s
Next Scheduled Active Check:	01-01-2006 13:39:45
Latency:	< 1 second
Check Duration:	< 1 second
Last State Change:	11-11-2005 16:58:37
Current State Duration:	3d 20h 10m 57s
Last Service Notification:	N/A
Current Notification Number:	0
Is This Service Flapping?	N/A
Percent State Change:	N/A
In Scheduled Downtime?	NO
Last Update:	11-15-2005 13:09:24

The next scheduled check isn't until Jan!!  why is this happeningn


# Service definition
define service{
        use                             generic-service         ; Name of service template to use
        host_name                       HOSTNAME
        service_description             Availability - HTTP
        is_volatile                     0
        check_period                    24x7
        max_check_attempts              3
        normal_check_interval           15
        retry_check_interval            1
        contact_groups                  linux-admins
        notification_interval           240
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_options            w,u,c,r
        check_command                   check_http
        }


All I did was change the normal check interval and reloaded the config.