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and subject line Re: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#671908:
/var/lib/icinga/spool/checkresults: policy violation
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Package: icinga
Version: 1.6.1-2
Severity: important
Hello,
/var/lib/icinga/spool/checkresults is used by icinga for transient
temporary files.
These belong in /run. Or /tmp.
The reason I have a major problem with them is that they tend to mess up
backups, by the time the backup process gets around to them they have
vanished and the backup process reports an error. :-/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (550,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages icinga depends on:
ii icinga-cgi 1.6.1-2
ii icinga-core 1.6.1-2
icinga recommends no packages.
Versions of packages icinga suggests:
ii nagios-nrpe-plugin 2.12-5
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Matthias Urlichs <[email protected]> writes:
> /var/lib/icinga/spool/checkresults is used by icinga for transient
> temporary files.
Yes.
> These belong in /run. Or /tmp.
No.
>From looking at the FHS and the Icinga documentation, it sounds like
/var/spool is indeed the correct place for these.
,----[ fhs ]
| /var/spool : Application spool data
|
| Purpose
|
| /var/spool contains data which is awaiting some kind of later
| processing. Data in /var/spool represents work to be done in the
| future (by a program, user, or administrator); often data is deleted
| after it has been processed. [43]
|
`----
Icinga says:
,----[ icinga docs ]
| Check Result Path
|
| Format:
|
| check_result_path=<path>
|
| Example:
|
| check_result_path=/var/spool/icinga/checkresults
|
| This options determines which directory Icinga will use to temporarily
| store host and service check results before they are processed. This
| directory should not be used to store any other files, as Icinga will
| periodically clean this directory of old file (see the
| max_check_result_file_age option for more information).
|
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> The reason I have a major problem with them is that they tend to mess
> up backups, by the time the backup process gets around to them they
> have vanished and the backup process reports an error. :-/
Some backup systems report file system changes while running. You should
not treat this like an error, unless you know you are going to miss the
files not backed up.
As a workaround, may I suggest you exclude this path from your backup
system, if it has problems while backup up a file system which is not
static.
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Stig Sandbeck Mathisen <[email protected]>
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