retention.dat never created

[divB]

Hi,

I just upgraded to Debian buster with nagios4. Suddenly everything is PENDING when I restart nagios. Super annoying.

My config has (Debian defaults):

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retain_state_information=1
state_retention_file=/var/lib/nagios4/retention.dat

But /var/lib/nagios4/retention.dat is never created!

Do I miss anything?

[scottwilkerson]

What are the permissions here

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ls -l /var/lib/nagios4
ls -l /var/lib
ls -l /var

[divB]

Thanks for your reply. /var/lib/nagios is is owned by nagios user and was fully writeable.

Very strangely things started to work after letting run nagios for some time ... the retention.dat got created.
I understand there is the parameter which says how often the retention.dat is written during runtime (which is 60min by default, I think) but to my understanding this should happen no matter what when nagios shuts down. Maybe this doesn't happen ...

[scottwilkerson]

but to my understanding this should happen no matter what when nagios shuts down. Maybe this doesn't happen ...

Yes, this should be true.

I'm glad that it did start working