Perhaps run the xymond_history command manually via strace and see what it was doing just before it crashed.

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, 08:29 Jeremy, <jeremy.ruffer at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Kris,

It might be an idea to check for files owned by root under the data directory and change them to xymon.

HTH

Jeremy

------ Original Message ------ From: "Kris Springer" <kspringer at innovateteam.com> To: "Xymon MailingList" <xymon at xymon.com> Sent: 31/03/2021 18:27:46 Subject: Re: [Xymon] ran Trimhistory and it broke something

I'm still getting xymond_history crash notifications exactly every 4 hours. I've looked in /var/log/xymon/ but there's doesn't seem to be any logs that give a clue as to what's happening.

Here's the notification I'm getting exactly every 4 hours.

*xymond_history purple [672384] *

*red - Program crashed

Fatal signal caught!*

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Kris Springer

On 3/23/21 11:41 AM, Kris Springer wrote:

Upon further searching of mailing list I came across this. https://lists.xymon.com/archive/2019-February/046058.html I re-ran my command with the 'sudo -u xymon' addition and it seemed to work.

$ cd /home/xymon/server/bin/ $ sudo -u xymon ./trimhistory --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs --cutoff=date +%s --date="1 Jan 2019" --progress

Kris Springer

Per the instructions found at https://xymon.sourceforge.io/xymon/help/manpages/man8/trimhistory.8.html I ran the following command to trim my very old log history and ever since then I'm getting the following crash alert. Also when reviewing history via the webpage I get results but the time stamps are wonky. I suspect it's because of the program crashing. Anyone know how to fix?

Trimhistory command I used: $ ./trimhistory --drop --dropsvcs --droplogs --cutoff=date +%s --date="1 Jan 2019" --progress

Alert I'm receiving:

xymond_history purple [549922] red - Program crashed

Fatal signal caught!

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