[Xymon] ran Trimhistory and it broke something

[Jeremy Laidman]

Perhaps run the xymond_history command manually via strace and see what it
was doing just before it crashed.

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, 08:29 Jeremy, <jeremy.ruffer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kris,
>
> It might be an idea to check for files owned by root under the data
> directory and change them to xymon.
>
> HTH
>
> Jeremy
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Kris Springer" <kspringer at innovateteam.com>
> To: "Xymon MailingList" <xymon at xymon.com>
> Sent: 31/03/2021 18:27:46
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] ran Trimhistory and it broke something
>
> I'm still getting xymond_history crash notifications exactly every 4
> hours.  I've looked in /var/log/xymon/ but there's doesn't seem to be any
> logs that give a clue as to what's happening.
>
> Here's the notification I'm getting exactly every 4 hours.
> -------------------------------
> *xymond_history purple [672384] *
>
> *red - Program crashed
>
> Fatal signal caught!*
>
> -------------------------------
>
>
> Kris Springer
>
>
> On 3/23/21 11:41 AM, Kris Springer wrote:
>
> Upon further searching of mailing list I came across this.
> https://lists.xymon.com/archive/2019-February/046058.html
> I re-ran my command with the 'sudo -u xymon' addition and it seemed to
> work.
>
> $ cd /home/xymon/server/bin/
> $ sudo -u xymon ./trimhistory --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs --cutoff=`date
> +%s --date="1 Jan 2019"` --progress
>
> Kris Springer
>
>
>
> Per the instructions found at
> https://xymon.sourceforge.io/xymon/help/manpages/man8/trimhistory.8.html
> I ran the following command to trim my very old log history and ever since
> then I'm getting the following crash alert.  Also when reviewing history
> via the webpage I get results but the time stamps are wonky.  I suspect
> it's because of the program crashing.
> Anyone know how to fix?
>
> Trimhistory command I used:
> $ ./trimhistory --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs --cutoff=`date +%s --date="1
> Jan 2019"` --progress
>
> Alert I'm receiving:
>
> xymond_history purple [549922]
> red - Program crashed
>
> Fatal signal caught!
>
>
>
> --
>
> Kris Springer
>
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