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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m at a loss. Now I’ve got a client reporting /var/log/messages as unreadable and the server is showing a flapping status for msgs. Group ownership for /var/log/messages is set to root:xymon with proper permissions,
so it should be able to read it. When I su to the xymon user, it can get to that file just fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">There is nothing in analysis.cfg that is watching either /var/log/messages or /var/log/fail2ban.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I cleared msgs from the server. Restarted the client. The issue keeps coming back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">John A.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Betsy Schwartz [mailto:betsy.schwartz@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 11, 2014 6:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> John D. Alexander<br>
<b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] recurring email alerts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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I had that error once when I had a space after the file name in analysis.cfg<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you can't find that file name maybe there's a shell eval that includes it somewhere?<o:p></o:p></p>
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Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p>
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On Apr 11, 2014, at 6:41 PM, "John D. Alexander" <<a href="mailto:JAlexander@feeneywireless.com">JAlexander@feeneywireless.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My Xymon server keeps sending alerts for a system saying that /var/log/fail2ban.log is unreadable.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nothing I can find is testing for this file and the permissions are such that xymon can read it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any clues on where to look to find what is causing this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00467F">John Alexander</span></b><br>
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Network Administrator<br>
</span><i><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00467F"><a href="mailto:John.Alexander@feeneywireless.com">John.Alexander@feeneywireless.com</a></span></u></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><br>
Feeney Wireless, LLC - PO Box 2549, Eugene, Oregon 97402</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">(Free) 800-683-4818<span style="position:relative;top:-3.0pt;mso-text-raise:3.0pt">
</span> (P) 541-685-9045 <span style="position:relative;top:-3.0pt;mso-text-raise:3.0pt">
</span> (F) 541-284-0030 <br>
<a href="http://www.feeneywireless.com/"><i><span style="color:#00467F">www.feeneywireless.com</span></i></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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