Nagios Support Forum

Hello Support team,

I noticed that deadpool processing had been stuck/stopped on my 3 XI servers for a little while now. (months?) I just got the problem sorted out on 2 of the 3 machines - I want to run this by you before I "fix" the 3rd, in case there is any info you would like me to gather.

Symptoms:
* Any deadpool settings set in the XI gui seem to be ignored. No processing happening.
* /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/deadpool.log not updated for months. File permissions correct.
* Running the deadpool command as found in /etc/cron.d/nagiosxi (with a "sudo -u nagios"), works as needed.

The Fix:
* For whatever reason, just editing the /etc/cron.d/nagiosxi file (manually) and saving it frees up the deadpool entry to run again.

/etc/cron.d/nagiosxi is set to root:root with 755 perms. "lsattr" shows nothing special set.
I saw the other nagiosxi cron items running as expected in /var/log/cron.

I haven't looked into it beyond what you see here. I'm a long time unix/linux user - not sure I recall ever seeing something like this before.

Please let me know if I can provide any other info...

Thanks for reporting this.

I'm going to look into the file but I have a feeling we need to add an additional blank line at the end of /etc/cron.d/nagiosxi