[Xymon] xymonnet alarm (with patch)

[Foster Patch]

Should I replace this:

CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --timelimit=75 --dns-timeout=5

With this 

CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --dns-timeout=5 --timelimit=75


Or should I add an additional line to what you put in?


-----Original Message-----
From: J.C. Cleaver [mailto:cleaver at terabithia.org] 
Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 11:30 PM
To: Foster Patch <Foster.Patch at accuweather.com>
Cc: Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymonnet alarm (with patch)

Patch now included.

-jc


On Fri, September 9, 2016 8:11 pm, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
> On Thu, September 8, 2016 11:51 am, Foster Patch wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I added what you recommended, but the alarm still exists. Here is the 
>> tasks.cfg section:
>> [xymonnet]
>>                ENVFILE /usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
>>                NEEDS xymond
>>                CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse
>> --dns-timeout=5 --timelimit=75
>>                LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonnet.log
>>                INTERVAL 1m
>>
>> The xymonnet alarm now says under Error output:
>> Unknown option –timelimit=75 – try –help
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Foster
>
>
> Hi Foster,
>
> Unfortunately, I can confirm that this is a bug in how that option is 
> processed. As a workaround, you can lie to xymonnet about what 
> interval it's been told to run (from xymonlaunch) at with:
>
>> CMD env TASKSLEEP=75 xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse
> --dns-timeout=5
>
> This should result in what you want.
>
> The following patch should fix it for you, and this will be in the 
> next version.
>
>
> HTH,
> -jc
>