Patrick Morris wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Lars Stavholm wrote: > >> I get "(Service Check Timed Out)" for one of my service checks >> (check_rootkit [rkhunter]), which could take a few minutes at >> times, so I've scheduled it to run every 20 minutes. Now, when >> getting the timeout, I went looking in the doco for some time >> out option and I couldn't find one. Well, I found the global >> configuration option "service_check_timeout", but that doesn't >> really cut it for me. The check_rootkit plugin could take several >> minutes, and I wouldn't want to adjust the timeout for all >> services just because of the check_rootkit. >> >> Q: Is there any way one could define time out on one service >> rather than all services? > > service_check_timeout is pretty much absolute. If you don't want to > change it (and you probably shouldn't) you may want to consider making > this a passive check, which generally makes more sense for checks that > are going to take a long time to complete.
Thanks! I'll try that. /L ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
