[Xymon] xymond_filestore: crashed but still working (too well?)

[Mills, David (IS)]

All --

Am turning on the "xymond_filestore" worker module for the first time and have a couple of odd things (to my mind) happening:

1) The status icon in Xymon ("xymond_filestore") is red, and the details page says "Program crashed / Fatal signal caught!". Found the core file under ~xymon/server/tmp/ and pstack shows:

core '/home/hobbit/xymon/server/tmp/core' of 16895:     xymond_filestore --data --debug
 ff13ebd4 _lwp_kill (6, 0, 0, ff11e0f0, ffffffff, 6) + 8
 ff0b29f0 abort    (0, 1, 42b94, ffb04, ff1b5518, 0) + 110
 0001f170 sigsegv_handler (b, 0, ffbfc830, 1, 0, 0) + 30
 ff13b00c __sighndlr (b, 0, ffbfc830, 1f140, 0, 1) + c
 ff12f6bc call_user_handler (b, 0, 0, 0, ff302a00, ffbfc830) + 3b8
 ff12f8a4 sigacthandler (b, 0, ffbfc830, ffffffff, 0, 0) + 60
 --- called from signal handler with signal 11 (SIGSEGV) ---
 ff11f858 fwrite   (4ba93, 16d, 1, 0, ff0000, 80808080) + 8
 00013c08 update_file (ffbfd4d0, 0, 4ba93, 0, 0, ffffffff) + 78
 00014a1c main     (2c000, 4ba55, 4, 0, 0, ffbfd4d0) + 99c
 00013a28 _start   (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 5c

 (Running v. 4.3.3 / Solaris 10, FWIW)

2) I turned on xymond_filestore because I'm writing a server-side script to analyze incoming data and assign status. I imagined I would *only* get files under $XYMONDATADIR sent from my custom client script, but instead I'm getting zillions (actually a few thousand) showing up in that dir. Can someone please explain why I'm getting all these client "data" files in this dir?

More to my point -- is there any way to restrict only the data files I want to appear in this dir?

Thanks!

david
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David Mills
Systems Administrator
Northrop Grumman
(512) 873-6665
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