Re: [Nagios-devel] NSCA using PROCESS_FILE

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Re: [Nagios-devel] NSCA using PROCESS_FILE

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> I'd like to see a option for pipes that would show the same behavior as
> syslogd: fill the pipe, and don't block when the pipe if full. This mean we
> won't loose data if the daemon is temporally down.

I am not sure which is the best solution for such problems. But at least
a big big warning should be put inside nagios.logs irrespectively
whether data is lost or stalled. Otherwise nobody would unterstand why
Nagios latency grows or some data maybe lost.

> Since writev should behave just like write I assume the difference is on the
> file filehandle flags. The *_perfdata_file_mode= parameter could be used to
> trigger this behavior, ex: "service_perfdata_file_mode=p".

:-) Good suggestion. No new variable

Cheers,

Gerd





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