Hi, 21.06.2007 23:20,, Patrick Morris wrote:: > Arno Lehmann schrieb am Donnerstag, den 21. Juni 2007: > >> Hi, >> >> chiel schrieb: >>> I'm looking for a plugin that will check if the nagios.cfg is ok. >>> So besecauly run this command: "/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v >>> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg". Is there a plugin for this? >> Wouldn't it be better to check this in the cron job itself? Nagios >> won't help you much if it crashes because of a broken config. >> >> The cron job could, naturally, report problems as passive results to >> Nagios... > > Nagios will never crash because of a broken config if it's running; > it just won't load that config. Checking from a cron job works, too, > but there's no reason Nagios can't also check to see if the on-disk > config is valid.
Well, I've seen Nagios crash on a broken config. Even if this is a bug which should (and perhaps is) fixed, I would not rely on that behaviour if I can easily avoid that. Thus my recommendation... Arno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ 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
