[Mageia-sysadm] [sysadmin-reports] Hobbit [817408] alamut.mageia.org:hobbitd warning (YELLOW)

Mon Jan 16 17:25:41 CET 2012

Le lundi 16 janvier 2012 à 16:59 +0100, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> 
+> > Le lundi 16 janvier 2012 à 14:10 +0200, Buchan Milne a écrit :
+> > > Why are we restarting xymon every hour?
+> > > 
+> > 
+> > because the initscripts do not have a 'status' command and so xymon is
+> > restarted by puppet ( in fact, not restarted, just started ). 
+> > I supposed that xymon initscript would be idempotent and just do
+> > nothing, and since you were aware of the issue last time we talk, I
+> > supposed it was not a problem beyong "1 useless line of log". 
+> > 
+> > But if this is the reason why xymon is flooding the list ( and i didn't
+> > figured this was the problem after looking at the code ), I will take a
+> > look to avoid that. Puppet can surely work around this.
+> 
+> Yes, hasstatus parameter to xymon service can be set to false if
+> init script does not support "status" :
+> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#service
+
+Yep, but after it fail since it try to loopup in the process table for a
+process called xymon ( who doesn't exist ). 
+
+So we need to add our own status command, which thankfully was already
+done by the script used to start xymon. 
+
+I pushed this on svn, see commit r2281 and r2279. 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+