[Xymon] Bug? Dropping host doesn't remove hostdata

[John Horne]

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 18:40 +0000, cleaver at terabithia.org wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 12:21 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> >
> > So the command is accepted by xymond and sent on, but not received by
> > xymond_hostdata.
> >
> > Unfortunately (?) this IPC is controlled by semaphores, so seeing as to
> > why xymond_hostdata does not pick up the message may be difficult.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> A ha! It all makes sense now... :) The root of this is actually a known
> issue: drop commands not getting sent to the CLICHG channel, which is why
> it only shows up here and not, say, xymond_rrd... xymond_hostdata is the
> only built-in that uses this one.
> 
> 
> It's patched in the Terabithia RPMs from last month, but it's not in the
> release tarball yet. The attached file should resolve it for you; can you
> verify?
> 
Hello,

Yes that patch works fine :-) The hostdata log now shows the directory
(and files) being deleted (and I checked that they had actually been
deleted from the disk).

Many thanks for your help.




John.

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