[Xymon] trimhistory error in terabithia RPM 4.3.27-1

[Japheth Cleaver]

On 8/25/2016 11:15 AM, SebA wrote:
> The error is 'Cannot cd to history directory: No such file or 
> directory', as per the log below. Any suggestions?
> [myuser at myserver histlogs]$ /usr/libexec/xymon/trimhistory  
> --cutoff=`date +%s --date="1 Aug 2011"` --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs 
> --progress=10
> 2016-08-25 19:07:42.028735 Cannot cd to history directory: No such 
> file or directory
> [myuser at myserver histlogs]$ sudo su -s /bin/bash - xymon
> -bash-3.2$ /usr/libexec/xymon/trimhistory  --cutoff=`date +%s 
> --date="1 Aug 2011"` --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs --progress=10
> 2016-08-25 19:08:28.459938 Cannot cd to history directory: No such 
> file or directory
> -bash-3.2$ pwd
> /usr/share/xymon
> -bash-3.2$ cd /var/lib/xymon
> -bash-3.2$ /usr/libexec/xymon/trimhistory  --cutoff=`date +%s 
> --date="1 Aug 2011"` --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs --progress=10
> 2016-08-25 19:09:20.390845 Cannot cd to history directory: No such 
> file or directory
> -bash-3.2$ rpm -q xymon
> xymon-4.3.27-1.el5
> -bash-3.2$ less /usr/libexec/xymon/trimhistory
> "/usr/libexec/xymon/trimhistory" may be a binary file.  See it anyway?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> SebA

Hi,

I believe trimhistory needs to run within the xymon environment to know 
where to find things.

Can you try prefixing it with 'xymoncmd'?


Regards,

-jc

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