> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 9:24 AM
> To: Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
> Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin that will test nagios.cfg
>
>
> >
> > One everyone uses init scripts. Nagios can also be restarted via
> > signals, web interface and directly trough the command pipe. Any of
> > these methods won't do any sanity checking.
> >
> >
> Do you mean "Not everyone uses init script"?
>
> > The init script does pretty much what I put in my bash example (and
even
> > more sanity checking)... BTW it checks the config on restarts too,
so
> > maybe you're running an old version...
> >
> >
> nagios 2.5 as I mentioned. not too old I think.
>
> It does check on restart, but the difference is that nagios is stopped
> so it can't start with the broken config, therefore it is no longer
> running, whereas if I do a reload instead then nagios is still running
> and I get the error checking but nagios is still up with the old
config
> until I fix the new config and do another reload. Nagios basically
stays
> up and keeps it's existing config if the new config doesn't pass the
> pre-flight check.
I'd say you're using a broken init script then. It's very clear that
nagios verifies the config and only stops and starts if verification is
OK.
restart)
printf "Running configuration check..."
$NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1;
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "done"
$0 stop
$0 start
else
#$NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile
echo " FAILED! Restart aborted. Check your
Nagios configuration."
exit 1
fi
;;
--
Marc
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