[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#479330: Bug#479330: log rotation, still an issue

[Alexander Wirt]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Daniel Pocock wrote:

> 
> This is still an issue that catches people by surprise when they get a
> Nagios alert about their disk filling up and then they find Nagios
> itself is to blame.
> 
> Marc, you state in your previous comment "History is important"
> 
> - is the history data in these log files any more important than the
> history in any other standard log file under /var/log ?
Yes. It is used for history, otherwise you won't have availability reports.
People will get very upset if their reports lose data (I know this from
customer experience).

> - if this historic data is essential for Nagios to perform its duties
> accurately (e.g. for some kind of reporting), is it really suitable for
> /var/log at all or should it be in /var/lib or /var/cache ?
It is after all: a logfile.

> - if just some subset of the log data is important should that be logged
> to a separate file or /var/lib ?
No, the whole line gets parsed.

> - any reason for not logging exclusively via syslog?  Just be sure to
> avoid feedback loops with syslog-nagios-bridge of course...
See above.

Alex