Nagios Support Forum

enediel gonzalez wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm using nagios Nagios 2.0b3 on debian sarge
>
> Reviewing the scripts for recurrent downtime available on
> www.nagiosexchange.org I could insert some schedule downtime on nagios.
>
> But even when I declared downtimes on the near future, let's say in 2
> hours, I executed the scripts (manually), I checked on the nagios
> interface and I saw the new entries on nagios !perfect!,
> I deleted all entries on the nagios interface after, and (for testing
> purposes) I tried to execute the same process several times (in the same
> order described, inserting, deleting).
>
> Nagios never had duplicated entries for scheduled downtimes, but came
> the moment when the same script used in my test did not modify the
> nagios configuration anymore.
>
> specifically I was trying to execute downtime_job.pl available on
> http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Downtimes ... _view]=363
>
>
> and properly configured
> the script didn't returned me any error, no logs,neither nagios.
>
> I checked the file permissions for nagios.cmd,
> I executed the script using the root's account,
> also
> chmod 777 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw (for testing purposes)
>
>
> ?Is something specific on nagios that doesn't allow me test this way?
> I'll appreciate any answer
>

grep your nagios.log for 'poll()' or some such. If polling the
command-pipe errors out it won't re-open or be able to read it any more.

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