[Xymon] Error Logs?

[Stephen Carville]

On 09/06/2017 02:26 PM, Stephen Carville wrote:
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> I have been testing xymon to replace the big-brother system.  Some time
> during the additions and deletions I seem to have messed up something
> because the status pages no longer update and the service links fail
> with errors like:
> 
> Cannot load host configuration
> 
> or
> 
> The requested URL /xymon-cgi/30 was not found on this server.
> 
> I've tried the obvious thinks like restarting xymon and apache.
> 
> Is there an error log or logs I can look at to find out why?
> 
> server: CentOS7 - 7.3.1611
>  xymon: 4.3.28
>  httpd: 2.4.6

It seems the problem is a sensitivity to errors in the hosts.cfg file.
For example of I type "COMMENT""Foo is Bar" instead of COMMENT:"Foo is
Bar" xymond goes off into lala land.  Very lala.  I have to use kill -9
to get rid of the process and free the socket for a new copy to start up.

Other examples incldue when there is no space between the server name
and the "#": "server.example.com# etc" instead of "server.example.com  #
etc".

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Stephen Carville
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