...@barclayscapital.com]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 6:59 PM
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after rebootby
lockfile
We reboot all of our hosts on a weekly basis. I used to price myself in
keeping my boxes up as long as possible, but having spent years
Wittenberg [mailto:daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:23 AM
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after
reboot by lockfile
So are you using the actual reboot command not shutdown -r
now which
is a little friendlier
eric.b...@barclayscapital.com wrote:
It's weirdwhen I run nagios and kill it with -9, it leaves the pid
file intact, but when I restart it, it zero's out the pid file and starts
just fine. when I just kill it with the default kill signal, it removes the
pid file.
This isn't weird.
[mailto:eric.b...@barclayscapital.com]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 10:16 AM
To: eric.b...@barclayscapital.com; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by
lockfile
Alternatively, could you recommend a good system/resource monitoring
tool
...@statefarm.com]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 11:56 AM
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after
reboot by lockfile
Couple questions
1) Why do you have to reboot your monitoring server weekly?
2) How is the reboot being done?
Reason I ask 2
On 12/21/2010 01:58 AM, eric.b...@barclayscapital.com wrote:
We reboot all of our hosts on a weekly basis. I used to price myself in
keeping my boxes up as long as possible, but having spent years now
supporting mission-critical financial production applications, I'm on board
with the