<div dir="auto"><div>Perhaps run the xymond_history command manually via strace and see what it was doing just before it crashed.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, 08:29 Jeremy, <<a href="mailto:jeremy.ruffer@gmail.com">jeremy.ruffer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
    
  
  <div><div>Hi Kris,</div><div><br></div><div>It might be an idea to check for files owned by root under the data directory and change them to xymon.</div><div><br></div><div>HTH</div><div><br></div><div>Jeremy</div>
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<div>From: "Kris Springer" <<a href="mailto:kspringer@innovateteam.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kspringer@innovateteam.com</a>></div>
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<div>Sent: 31/03/2021 18:27:46</div>
<div>Subject: Re: [Xymon] ran Trimhistory and it broke something</div><div><br></div>
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    I'm still getting xymond_history crash notifications exactly every 4
    hours.  I've looked in /var/log/xymon/ but there's doesn't seem to
    be any logs that give a clue as to what's happening.<br>
    <br>
    Here's the notification I'm getting exactly every 4 hours.<br>
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    <b>xymond_history purple [672384]
    </b>
    <pre><b>red - Program crashed

Fatal signal caught!</b></pre>
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    <pre cols="72">Kris Springer

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    <div>On 3/23/21 11:41 AM, Kris Springer
      wrote:<br>
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      Upon further searching of mailing list I came across this.  <a href="https://lists.xymon.com/archive/2019-February/046058.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://lists.xymon.com/archive/2019-February/046058.html</a><br>
      I re-ran my command with the 'sudo -u xymon' addition and it
      seemed to work. <br>
      <br>
      $ cd /home/xymon/server/bin/<br>
      $ sudo -u xymon ./trimhistory --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs
      --cutoff=`date +%s --date="1 Jan 2019"` --progress<br>
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      <pre cols="72">Kris Springer


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      <div> Per the instructions found at
        <a href="https://xymon.sourceforge.io/xymon/help/manpages/man8/trimhistory.8.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://xymon.sourceforge.io/xymon/help/manpages/man8/trimhistory.8.html</a>
        I ran the following command to trim my very old log history and
        ever since then I'm getting the following crash alert.  Also
        when reviewing history via the webpage I get results but the
        time stamps are wonky.  I suspect it's because of the program
        crashing.<br>
        Anyone know how to fix?<br>
        <br>
        Trimhistory command I used:<br>
        $ ./trimhistory --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs --cutoff=`date +%s
        --date="1 Jan 2019"` --progress<br>
        <br>
        Alert I'm receiving:<br>
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          <pre>xymond_history purple [549922]
red - Program crashed

Fatal signal caught!</pre>
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        <pre cols="72">-- 

Kris Springer



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