[Xymon] Logfile not accessible

Jeremy Laidman jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au
Wed Oct 29 22:43:23 CET 2014


Every 3 minutes is a bit peculiar because the client message with the log
entries gets sent every 5 minutes. Could it be that there are two client
processes running at the same time?

Permissions on the file look OK, but it could be that permissions on
directory tree are not sufficient.

J
 On 30/10/2014 1:15 AM, "usa ims via Xymon" <xymon at xymon.com> wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 07:08:55 -0700
> Subject: Logfile not accessible
> Greetings everybody,
>
> I have this one log file that is going from yellow to green back to yellow
> every 3 minutes.
> The xymon-client is installed on a MySQL server.
>
> When the BB Display goes to yellow it indicates:
>
> Warnings in /opt/mysql/log-error/zzzzzz-error.log
> yellow Logfile not accessible
>
> But I see activity in the log.
>
> However, the log file does exists there with the proper permissions for
> everyone to read.
> -rw-r--r--  1 mysql mysql 44143540 Oct 29 10:02 zzzzzz-error.log
>
> When it turns green, it indicates:
> No entries in /opt/mysql/log-error/zzzzzz-error.log
> Full log /opt/mysql/log-error/zzzzzz-error.log
>
> But I see activity in the log.
>
> What could be causing this flopping from green to yellow and back to green?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> usaims
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