Re: help

Dear Madam,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:58:09PM -0200, Patricia Orlandini Lao wrote:
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> -
> Hello
>  
> ARCHIVE NETSAINT.CMD THIS WITH The FOLLOWING PERMISSION: 
> rw-rw----  1 netsaint  www        64 Jan 13 11:33 netsaint.cmd
> When inserted the commentaries saw web are recorded in netsaint.cmd, but not
> to appear in the page web.
> HOw that it can be happening?

1 You will be much happier using Nagios (http://www.Nagios.ORG) since
Netsaint is _not_ maintained and use you can see from the traffic to the
list there is not much happening.

Nagios (Agios means Saint in Greek I think) is

. popular. This means more answers to problems

. actively developed

. has a road map for its development and committed developers

Moving from Netsaint to Nagios is fairly straight forward

. Nag builds like Netsaint

. plugins are the same

All you need do is learn the new configuration file format.

However, there is a mechanical translator (found under the FAQ on the
Nag web site) to covert Netsaint configs to Nag.

2 netsaint.cmd needs to be a 'fifo' (named pipe).

You need to find out what command on your system creates named pipes
(hint Makefile under the install target) or use your local sysadmin
expert (may be you) so that you can create the named pipe that Netsaint
needs.

mkfifo is the command for BSD systems but probably not Linux.
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> thanks
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You shouldn't see _anything_ stored in a fifo since it is _not_ a
file. The comments are passed _from_ from the CGI process _to_ the
Netsaint process (like a normal pipe, but there is a name in the file
system).

Without this being a fifo, Netsaint should not be returning service
check results. 

If Netsaint actually works, and its only the comments that are broken, I
am probably wrong.

Here's how it looks on my Nag system

tsitc# ll /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd 
prw-rw----  1 nagios  nagiocmd  0 Jan 15 15:10
/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
tsitc# 


Yours sincerely.

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continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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