[xymon] Solaris msgs alert not clearing

[Ryan Novosielski]

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I had gone around adding the mark to the system loggers. It'd be good to
have a better way, but that's the way that one had available when
speaking of Big Brother.

On 02/11/2011 01:33 PM, Larry Barber wrote:
> Yes, I think that is exactly what's happening, but my understanding of
> how msgs alerts work is that they are supposed to last for 1/2 hour (by
> default) then go away. Having these alerts hang around for hours is
> _not_ helpful, if nothing else they mask any new problem messages.
> 
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
> 
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com
> <mailto:tm at freedom.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     This is just a wag hunch, I have not looked into this to verify so
>     please take with a grain of salt.
> 
>     If you are speaking of alerts from /var/adm/messages or such, is it
>     possible that the event is one of the last things appearing in the
>     logs (has not been overshadowed in the log with new activity), so
>     it's still in the last 10240 range?
> 
>     Tim
> 
> 
>     ________________________________________
>     From: Larry Barber [lebarber at gmail.com <mailto:lebarber at gmail.com>]
>     Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 10:46 AM
>     To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
>     Subject: [xymon] Solaris msgs alert not clearing
> 
>     I'm having a problem with a Solaris client. A msgs alert was
>     triggered over 2 hours ago, and it still has not cleared, even
>     though no new alert-worthy messages have appeared in the message
>     log. Has anybody else seen this behavior? I'm running a 4.2.0
>     server, I'm not sure what the version of the client is since I don't
>     have access to the box involved (Henrik, it might be a good idea to
>     include the Hobbit client version in the client data).
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Larry Barber
> 
> 


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