[Xymon] Xymongrep in 4.3.17 does not load local hosts.cfg

[Wladimir K]

2014-07-29 18:53 GMT+02:00 J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>:
>
>
> On Tue, July 29, 2014 1:20 am, Wladimir K wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I compiled xymon 4.3.17 on Suse 11 distribution successfuly and the
>> server is running. But when I call xymongrep I get the following:
>>
>> xymon at n1000 > xymongrep test
>> 2014-07-29 09:24:01 Cannot load
>> /opt/xymon/default/server/etc/hosts.cfg, or file is empty
>>
>> Xymon is installed in /opt/xymon/default/.
>>
>> The file exists and has the necessery permissions:
>>
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon users 1308 2014-07-18 14:45
>> /opt/xymon/default/server/etc/hosts.cfg
>>
>> The hosts.cfg is also not empty and worked with Xymon 4.2.3.
>>
>> With strace I don't see that xymongrep even tries to open the file:
>>
> *snip*
>>
>> Actually, instead of opening the file it is trying to get it via network:
>> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3 fcntl(3, F_SETFL,
>> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK)  = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET,
>> sin_port=htons(1984), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1
>> EINPROGRESS (Operation now in progress)
>> select(4, [3], [3], NULL, {15, 0})      = 1 (out [3], left {14, 999998})
>> getsockopt(3, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, [72058139498774528], [4]) = 0
>> write(3, "config hosts.cfg", 16)        = 16
>>
>> Which does not work as the port is not 1984 but 1988. But why does it
>> try to make network connection and doesn't open the local file. And
>> even then it writes to stdout that it tries to open the file locally
>> but it doesn't.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>> WK
>
> I'd have to validate, however it seems like xymongrep might do that when
> it's running without an environment. Typically its use case is in scripts
> that are being executed via xymonlaunch and have already had an "ENV
> /path/to/xymonserver.cfg" (or equivalent) set up for them. This would also
> explain not hitting your custom XYMONDPORT value.
>
> From the command line, can you try running 'xymoncmd
> --env=/path/to/xymonservercfg xymongrep test', or explicitly specifying
> 'env HOSTSCFG=/path/to/hosts.cfg xymongrep test'?
>
>
> HTH,
> -jc
>

Thanks, that helped!

Best regards
Wladimir