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Nothing else in either nagios.log or the system logs that shows up around the same times as these warnings. I'm going to try using the audit subsystem to log all accesses of the checkresults directory, and then watch the system logs for another occurrence of this warning, and then see if I can corre...

The system is not swapping. I've looked back at our resource utilization logs, and at the time of all of the recent warnings, there was zero swap utilization, and roughly 3 - 3.5 GB of RAM (out of 8GB total) was in use. Also, FWIW, the system load has been pretty consistently around 1.00 (out of 8.0...

Hm, I don't think so. Our nagios.cfg contains "event_broker_options=-1", but we don't have any broker_module specified.

abrist, Ok, running that via watch -n1, and I am seeing one or more defunct nagios processes periodically, maybe every 5-10 seconds (it's irregular). Occasionally there are a bunch all at once, maybe 8-10 of them. But none ever linger for more than a second. I'll restart the service just for the hec...

Thanks for the additional details, Scott.

I really don't like ignoring mysteries like this, as they're often a subtle indication that something else is wrong.

(Oh hey, it sent me an e-mail notification this time! Cool.)

scottwilkerson, Nope, only one instance running.

$ ps -ef|grep bin/nagios
nagios 24121 1 0 Jul22 ? 00:11:58 /usr/sbin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg

yancy, No, it's a different random filename each time. I can't report on the permissions of the file in question, because by the time we check, it is already gone. I doubt it is a permissions issue, however, since if that's what it was, I'd expect we'd be getting hundreds of these warnings every min...

Running Nagios 3.5.0 on EL6, using packages from the EPEL repo. We monitor a few hundred hosts and services. We are getting sporadic warning in our nagios.log every few days like the following: [1375153859] Warning: Could not stat() check result file '/var/log/nagios/spool/checkresults/cpkYQTf'. Asi...