PID changes / Xymon restart

[SEGLARD, Thomas]

Hello,
 
I got a very strange behaviour on my platform with the Xymon client. The
cient process don't stop to change PID (and sometimes the process stops
running without any reasons), I could see this behaviour thanks to Monit
and here is an extract from the log :
 
CET Feb 14 14:28:29] info     : 'xymon-client' PID has not changed
[CET Feb 14 14:46:29] error    : 'xymon-client' process PID changed to
2687
[CET Feb 14 14:48:29] info     : 'xymon-client' PID has not changed
[CET Feb 14 15:08:29] error    : 'xymon-client' process PID changed to
21173
[CET Feb 14 15:10:30] info     : 'xymon-client' PID has not changed
[CET Feb 14 15:28:31] error    : 'xymon-client' process is not running
[CET Feb 14 15:28:31] info     : 'xymon-client' trying to restart
[CET Feb 14 15:28:31] info     : 'xymon-client' start:
/etc/init.d/xymon-client
[CET Feb 14 15:30:31] info     : 'xymon-client' process is running with
pid 7355
[CET Feb 14 15:50:32] error    : 'xymon-client' process PID changed to
24896
[CET Feb 14 15:52:32] info     : 'xymon-client' PID has not changed
[CET Feb 14 16:10:32] error    : 'xymon-client' process PID changed to
10575
[CET Feb 14 16:12:32] info     : 'xymon-client' PID has not changed
[CET Feb 14 16:30:33] error    : 'xymon-client' process PID changed to
28689
 
As a consequence each time PID changes, Puppet restarts Xymon client and
after few hours I see a lot of hobbitlaunch process confusing some of my
tests and filling up $XYMONHOME/tmp directory. I'm using Xymon for 4
years and never saw this before. My platform runs with Centos5.5 x86_64
and Xymon 4.2.3.
 
Why does Xymon change its PID like that ? Why does it suddenly stops
running (no trace of segfault in logs) ?
 
This problem is now very annoying thus any ideas or advices will be
appreciated J
Sincerly,
 
Thomas S
 
 
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