[Xymon] recurring email alerts

[Adam Goryachev]

On 15/04/14 01:14, John D. Alexander wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Look at the IP address reporting the issue, possibly you have two 
systems reporting under the same name.

Regards,
Adam

> 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*
>     Network Administrator
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