[Orca-users] Re: two orca problems

[Arnaud]

From: Arnaud <arnaud at ukibi.com>

bsirinek at cme.com wrote:

> From: bsirinek at cme.com
>
> I'm running orca 0.25 and orcallator.se-1.20.txt on an Sun E4500 and Solaris
> 2.6 (monitoring 15 boxes) and am having two problems
>
> 1) Upon starting orca, dozens of gunzip processes start up and never die
> (though they are not using any cpu time). These never go away and become
> defunct if I kill them. I did indeed set the ulimit to 256, as the mailing
> list and documentation state. :)

You have gunzip because you have .gz files in
"orca/var/orca/orcallator/`hostname`/  and you run orca continously (orca is
configured to open .gz files as you can see in  orca/lib/orcallator.cfg).

I solve this by running orca only once (-o option) per hour (launched by
crontab), and by moving elsewhere the .gz file corresponding to the current day
after it has been parsed (by crontab after midnight).

It is not very elegant but it works (for me).

>
>
> 2) Every night at midnight when the logs rotate and move to the next day I
> get one mail per server saying
> "/usr/local/var/orca/orcallator/<servername>/percol-yyyy-mm-dd did exist and
> is now gone". I know *why* I get this (the file is gzipped, and the name
> changed because of the gz extension), but I'd like to know how/if I can stop
> it, aside from disabling all mail, and thus missing genuine orca error
> mails.
>

I am not sure but I think you can comment the email line in
orca/lib/orcallator.cfg.

I hope it will help you (I am new to orca so there are probably a lot of tricks
to learn...)

Arnaud

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Arnaud Lebrun
E-AdBook, Inc.
http://www.ukibi.com/arnaud.lebrun/

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