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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=177090510-26082016><FONT size=2
face=Arial>Quite right, this works:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial>-bash-3.2$ /usr/libexec/xymon/xymoncmd
/usr/libexec/xymon/trimhistory --cutoff=`date +%s --date="1 Aug 2011"`
--drop --dropsvcs --droplogs --progress=10</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial>Thanks jc!</FONT></SPAN></DIV><!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-gb><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Kind
regards,</FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P><SPAN lang=en-gb><FONT size=2
face=Arial>Sebastian </FONT></SPAN> <BR></P>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Japheth Cleaver
[mailto:cleaver@terabithia.org] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 25 August 2016
20:21<BR><B>To:</B> SebA; xymon@xymon.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: trimhistory
error in terabithia RPM 4.3.27-1<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 8/25/2016 11:15 AM, SebA wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><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 size=2
face=Arial>Any suggestions?</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>[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>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><BR>Kind
regards,<BR><BR>Seb<SPAN
class=443011118-25082016>A</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>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></P>
<P>-jc<BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>