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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/25/2016 11:15 AM, SebA wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="443011118-25082016">The
error is 'Cannot cd to history directory: No such file or
directory', as per the log below. <span
class="443011118-25082016"><font face="Arial" size="2">Any
suggestions?</font></span></span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">[myuser@myserver histlogs]$
/usr/libexec/xymon/trimhistory --cutoff=`date +%s --date="1
Aug 2011"` --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs --progress=10<br>
2016-08-25 19:07:42.028735 Cannot cd to history directory: No
such file or directory<br>
[myuser@myserver histlogs]$ sudo su -s /bin/bash - xymon<br>
-bash-3.2$ /usr/libexec/xymon/trimhistory --cutoff=`date +%s
--date="1 Aug 2011"` --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs
--progress=10<br>
2016-08-25 19:08:28.459938 Cannot cd to history directory: No
such file or directory<br>
-bash-3.2$ pwd<br>
/usr/share/xymon<br>
-bash-3.2$ cd /var/lib/xymon<br>
-bash-3.2$ /usr/libexec/xymon/trimhistory --cutoff=`date +%s
--date="1 Aug 2011"` --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs
--progress=10<br>
2016-08-25 19:09:20.390845 Cannot cd to history directory: No
such file or directory<br>
-bash-3.2$ rpm -q xymon<br>
xymon-4.3.27-1.el5<br>
-bash-3.2$ less /usr/libexec/xymon/trimhistory<br>
"/usr/libexec/xymon/trimhistory" may be a binary file. See it
anyway?</font></div>
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Kind regards,<br>
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Seb<span class="443011118-25082016">A</span></span></span></div>
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Hi,<br>
<p>I believe trimhistory needs to run within the xymon environment
to know where to find things.</p>
<p>Can you try prefixing it with 'xymoncmd'?</p>
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<p>Regards,<br>
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<p>-jc<br>
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