[Xymon] libs: cannot check kernel uptodateness

[Rodolfo Pilas]

You are right Galen.  

The libs monitor compares /proc/config.gz and with /boot/config-$(uname -r) but the first file do not exist in Debian
(ref:  http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFAQ#Misc_FAQ )  

The compare of running kernel and installed kernel is doing form a previous if condition, then the solution is to remove the find code /proc/config.gz at /usr/lib/hobbit/client/ext/libs

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< my $curconfig = "/proc/config.gz";
< my $instconfig = "/boot/config-$current";
<  
< if (-e $curconfig and -e $instconfig) {
< system "zdiff -q $curconfig $instconfig > /dev/null";
< if ($? >> 8 != 0) {
< $bb->color_line ('yellow', "Machine should be rebooted, kernel configs $curconfig and $instconfig differ\n\n");
< }
< } else {
< $bb->color_line ('clear', "One of $curconfig and $instconfig was not found, cannot check kernel uptodateness\n\n");
< }
<

Henrik the file /usr/lib/hobbit/client/ext/libs is into the hobbit-plugins debian package
http://packages.debian.org/sid/hobbit-plugins

and the libs script starts:

# Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Peter Palfrader <peter at palfrader.org>
# Porting to hobbit Copyright (C) 2007 Christoph Berg <myon at debian.org>

# Copyright (C) 2011 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org>   


Thank you guys!  

---
Rodolfo Pilas
http://www.pilas.net
@ysidorito


El martes, 23 julio 2013 a las 23:31 , Galen Johnson escribió:

> I saw those messages on my system as well. I just modified the script to ignore them. I think they are created when the kernel is compiled to let the user know what was the kernel was compiled with. There is likely a config-x.y.z-aa-arch for every kernel you have installed. I'd have to look at it again but it might be easy enough to modify it to use "config-`uname -r`" to have it look for the config of the running kernel. Regardless, I don't think they're useful to monitor.
>  
> =G=
>  
> From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com (mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com)] on behalf of Rodolfo Pilas [r at pil.as (mailto:r at pil.as)]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 7:20 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com (mailto:xymon at xymon.com)
> Subject: [Xymon] libs: cannot check kernel uptodateness
>  
>  
> My last servers installed with Debian wheezy or Ubuntu precise has started to show a yellow alarm at libs with message:  
>  
> One of /proc/config.gz and /boot/config-3.2.0-4-amd64 was not found, cannot check kernel uptodateness
>  
> However  
>  
> ls -l /boot/config-3.2.0-4-amd64  
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129065 Jun 9 15:47 /boot/config-3.2.0-4-amd64
>  
> A search at Google shows me several xymon monitor with the same yellow alarm active but I can found references about it.  
>  
> Any comments will be appreciated.  
>  
> Regards,  
> Rodolfo Pilas