[Xymon] Alerts Stopped Working with DURATION Keyword

[Stephen Carville (xymon list)]

On 12/31/2017 08:22 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:
> 
> What is the owner and group for the file? And with what user/group do you run xymon?
> 

AFAIK, all the processes run as user xymon.  Almost all the config files
are owned by xymon:xymon.  A couple that (I think) the webserver has to
write to are owned by xymon:apache.

$ ls -l
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xymon xymon  10177 Dec 31 06:55 alerts.cfg
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xymon xymon  24198 Dec 11 09:11 analysis.cfg
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon   2199 Sep  1 16:26 cgioptions.cfg
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon   3794 Sep  1 16:26 client-local.cfg
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon  11546 Sep  1 16:26 columndoc.csv
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon    577 Sep  1 16:26 combo.cfg
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon     59 Dec 31 11:11 cookies.session
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xymon apache     0 Sep  1 16:26 critical.cfg
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xymon apache     0 Sep  1 16:26 critical.cfg.bak
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon  69329 Sep  1 16:26 graphs.cfg
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon   3929 Sep  1 16:26 holidays.cfg
-rw-rw-r--. 1 xymon xymon    483 Nov 14 11:54 hosts.cfg
drwxrwxr-x. 3 xymon xymon   4096 Dec 30 20:24 hosts.d
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon   5684 Sep  8 11:34 protocols.cfg
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon   1360 Sep  1 16:26 rrddefinitions.cfg
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon  16843 Sep  1 16:26 snmpmibs.cfg
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon  10971 Sep  1 16:26 tasks.cfg
drwxr-xr-x. 2 xymon xymon      6 Sep  1 16:26 tasks.d
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon   5482 Sep  1 16:26 xymon-apache.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon   3328 Sep  1 16:26 xymonmenu.cfg
-rw-r--r--. 1 xymon xymon  17547 Sep 20 08:34 xymonserver.cfg

It seemed a little weird to me but I verified that if I remove the
global read on alerts.cfg, the notifications stop.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Carville (xymon list)
> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2017 8:49 AM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Alerts Stopped Working with DURATION Keyword
> 
> On 12/30/2017 09:35 PM, Stephen Carville (xymon list) wrote:
>>
>> While trying to add a new alert to alerts.cfg I seem to have killed all
>> my alerts.
> 
> Turns out it was -- apparently -- a permissions issue.  I changed the
> perms on alerts.cfg from 0660 to 0664 and the alerts started working
> correctly again.
> 
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