[Orca-users] Re: Email warnings getting way out of hand...

[Blair Zajac]

Hello,

There are two ways of disabling email messages.  Either modify Orca's
configuration file by commenting out warn_email or remove the list of
email addresses:

  #warn_email root at lcoalhost

or

  warn_email

Regarding old data files, you can archive them away, but if you every
need to regenerate your RRD files, then you'll need to get them back.

Regards,
Blair

Steve Gilbert wrote:
> 
> Hey everyone,
>       I hope someone can help me with this.  I have two groups of
> machines (~20 in each group) that are all running orcallator, and
> the resulting percol-* files get rsync'ed over to my collector
> machine that runs Orca.  There are two orca processes running on
> this machine...one for each group of target machines.  Pretty much
> the same deal as a lot of folks here.
> 
>       On the target machines, all the percol-* files are there,
> gzip'ed except for the current day's file.  So each day one
> uncompressed
> file gets pulled over to the master.  As a result, on the collector
> machine, I have both a compressed and an uncompressed percol-* file
> for each day.  I run a perl script out of cron each day that blows
> away any uncompressed file that is not for the current day.
> 
>       Now, when this happens, my email gets completely bombared with
> these messages...
> 
> /usr/local/orca/bin/orca: warning: file
> `/usr/local/orca/var/orca/orcallator/project1/blah/percol-2001-03-28'
> did exist and is now gone.
> /usr/local/orca/bin/orca: warning: file
> `/usr/local/orca/var/orca/orcallator/project1/blah/percol-2001-03-27'
> did exist and is now gone.
> 
> ...and I really mean bombarded.  All my email gets forwarded to my
> desktop
> by our mail server, and I will get hundreds and hundreds of these
> messages.
> My poor Sparc5 will climb up to 10 load points, and our sysadmin who
> maintains the mail server is starting to send me hate mail.  I usually
> end up just killing orca until the mail dies down and then brace
> myself
> for the next onslaught.
> 
>       I don't know why this happens exactly, but all I want to do is
> turn
> off this email...make it so that Orca never sends email again no
> matter
> what.  I've got some scripts that monitor the general status of
> things, so
> I'm not too worried about something going wrong, and me not catching
> it.
> Can I just set warn_email to /dev/null or something like that?
> 
>       Also...if this happens anytime a file goes away...how is it
> possible
> to ever get rid of old percol-* files and archive them away somewhere?
> Do I just have something configured wrong?
> 
> Steve Gilbert
> gilbert at cs.utk.edu