[Xymon] ran Trimhistory and it broke something

[Jeremy]

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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