From: Russell S. <ru...@qu...> - 2002-10-29 20:45:42
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I've noticed that the init script that comes with Nagios makes reference to a nagios file in the /var/lock/subsys directory when you try to stop Nagios. It tries removing this file. Well, I'm trying to figure out is when/how this file is even created? The only references I can see to it are in the functions file and the init script itself. Also, two more question about this. What if you aren't running on Linux, on an OS that doesn't use /var/lock/subsys? That reference definitely seems hardcoded in the init daemon-init.in file. And what happens when you are running multiple instances of Nagios on 1 box. I know Nagios uses the nagios.lock file for PID storage, and on the Linux boxes I have running Nagios, the /var/lock/subsys/nagios file is empty. Is this necessary? I don't understand what function this exactly serves. Any help with this would be appreciated as I am trying to rewrite the init script to be more OS generic (some parts of it don't work on Solaris). Thanks. -Russell Scibetti -- Russell Scibetti Quadrix Solutions, Inc. http://www.quadrix.com (732) 235-2335, ext. 7038 |