[Xymon] ran Trimhistory and it broke something

[Kris Springer]

I ran the following command and it found a few mrtg files that were 
owned by root user instead of xymon user, but everything else is owned 
by xymon user.
$ find /home/xymon/data/ -user root

Kris Springer


On 3/31/21 3:28 PM, Jeremy 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 
> <mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>>
> To: "Xymon MailingList" <xymon at xymon.com <mailto: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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