Brian Loe wrote: > On 1/29/07, Josh Yost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I kill the nagios process (there's only one according to "ps fax > | grep nagios") the lock file is removed. > > I did just notice something interesting though, with the permissions, > are they correct? > /usr/local/nagios/etc # ls -altr ../var/ > total 484 > -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 6 Jan 29 09:59 nagios.lock > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 145469 Jan 29 10:00 status.dat > drwxrwxr-x 4 nagios nagios 344 Jan 29 10:00 . > > The lock file doesn't have write permissions for, what, group?
It doesn't need to. Nagios manages it alone and no other group can touch it anyway as it obtains a file-lock on it. > Is this > thing some how looked at or..whatever...when an alert is sent? No. The lock-file is there to make sure that you can't start another nagios instance while one is already running. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ 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
