Hello,

I just want to share a issue we have seen the other day.

I recently configured logrotate to rotate the hobbit logs in /var/log/hobbit (I know, it's XYmon, but we still run 4.2)

These were the lines I used:

/var/log/hobbit/* { compress dateext maxage 60 rotate 1 missingok notifempty daily olddir /var/log/oldlog/hobbit create 640 root root sharedscripts postrotate /etc/init.d/hobbit restart endscript }

After the logrotate happened - midnight - I received hundreds of hobbit alerts - Ups - was the whole network down? I logged in and could reach the hobbit server - network works... But all (and only those) connection tests failed. Everything was red. A ping however show results and the traceroute reached the systems as well.

The reason was simple. The Logrotate has re-created the hobbit log files - with 640 root root - as in the config. Hobbit however was not able to write into these files, as it runs as hobbit:users... My fault... Changing permission and of course the failure in logrotate, restart hobbit and everything becomes green again.

I would have assumed, that hobbit simply decide not to start as it could not write to the logs... Or that the conn tests went clean due to this... This causes some calls this morning for the other guys on the alerting lists... ;-)

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