Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lockfile

2010-12-21 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
...@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

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lockfile

2010-12-21 Thread eric.berg
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

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lockfile

2010-12-21 Thread Paul M. Dubuc
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.

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lockfile

2010-12-20 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
[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

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lockfile

2010-12-20 Thread eric.berg
...@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

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lockfile

2010-12-20 Thread Andreas Ericsson
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