[Xymon] recurring email alerts

[John D. Alexander]

I’m at a loss.  Now I’ve got a client reporting /var/log/messages as unreadable and the server is showing a flapping status for msgs.  Group ownership for /var/log/messages is set to root:xymon with proper permissions, so it should be able to read it.  When I su to the xymon user, it can get to that file just fine.

There is nothing in analysis.cfg that is watching either /var/log/messages or /var/log/fail2ban.

I cleared msgs from the server.  Restarted the client.  The issue keeps coming back.

Any ideas?

John A.

From: Betsy Schwartz [mailto:betsy.schwartz at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 6:44 PM
To: John D. Alexander
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] recurring email alerts


I had that error once when I had a space after the file name in analysis.cfg

If you can't find that file name maybe there's a shell eval that includes it somewhere?

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 11, 2014, at 6:41 PM, "John D. Alexander" <JAlexander at feeneywireless.com<mailto:JAlexander at feeneywireless.com>> wrote:
My Xymon server keeps sending alerts for a system saying that /var/log/fail2ban.log is unreadable.

Nothing I can find is testing for this file and the permissions are such that xymon can read it.

Any clues on where to look to find what is causing this?

Thanks.

John Alexander
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