[Xymon] Xymon crashes

[Buchan Milne]

On Saturday, 30 April 2011 17:55:50 Henrik Størner wrote:
> > So I uninstalled Xymon, deleted everyting related to it and then
> > installed a fresh copy of Xymon 4.3.2 (also via the port-collection)
> > The installation goes fine, but when I start it up, the html files aren't
> > generated.
> > It seems that xymond crashes for reasons I don't understand
> > 
> > I did some digging and I see the following:
> > 
> > xymonlaunch.log:
> > 
> > 2011-04-09 23:39:33 xymonlaunch starting
> > 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Loading tasklist configuration from
> > /usr/local/www/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg
> > 2011-04-09 23:39:33 Cannot open directory ^T<C2> (<C6><B1>
> 
> Looks like something weird in your configuration - that "directory" name
> doesn't look right. Check your configuration files - especially the
> xymonserver.cfg and tasks.cfg files, this is something that happens very
> early in the setup.
> 
> Maybe tasks.cfg has a "directory" include pointing to a non-existing
> directory. Maybe xymonserver.cfg is missing or unreadable.
> 
> Maybe your config files are not ascii, but in UTF-16 format.

No. I have seen this before, and I forgot to note it.

In my case there was a permissions problem on either the directory, or a file 
in the directory. The function handling this does not catch errors in opening 
the file.

Regards,
Buchan