endless notify's

[august macbeth]

OK something is whacked.. even with argus completley shutdown.. i'm
still getting the messages!!! how the!???!?!?!?!?!

~august

* august macbeth <august at hipdesign.com>
  |__ Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:47:28PM -0700:
> Neil, 
> 
> after shutting down/manually killing all the processes i'm still getting
> the RESENT messages sent every 5 minutes. 
> 
> lemme check out a few things: 
> 
> diablo# argusctl shutdown
> ARGUS/2.0 200 OK
> [1]+  Killed                  argusctl -k console  (wd: /var/argus)
> (wd now: /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin)
> 
> ...checked to see, and there are no argus processes running. starting it
> back up:
> 
> /etc/init.d/argus start prints this to the syslog: 
> 
> Apr  9 13:38:55 diablo Argus[25777]: syslog configured: daemon
> Apr  9 13:38:57 diablo Argus[25777]: Control server: listening on
> unix//var/argus/control
> Apr  9 13:38:57 diablo Argus[25777]: successful restart - Argus running
> 
> ...but right after that last line, i could see postfix sending out
> another notify about snmp being down so something is still sending it
> out.. 
> 
> what about manually removing everything in notify/ is that safe to do?
> 
> ~august
> 
> * Neil Campbell <Neil.Campbell at sun.com>
>   |__ Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:22:07PM -0600:
> > There should be a daemon running.
> > 
> > Best way to check that things are running is to use the Log File - there 
> > should be an entry such as:
> > 
> > [2004/3/25 9:27:29] [28657] successful restart - Argus running
> > 
> > If not, there will be an error message indicating where the problem lies.
> > 
> > Neil
> > 
> > august macbeth wrote:
> > >Neil, 
> > >
> > >thanks for the reply.. interesting, ps aux brought back the following
> > >initially: 
> > >
> > >root     31493  0.0  0.4  3908 2340 pts/2    T    Apr06   0:00
> > >/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/sbin/argusctl -k console
> > >root     17410  0.0  0.6  4592 3508 ?        S    Apr08   0:07
> > >/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/lib/argus/graphd daemon
> > >
> > >i ran argusctl shutdown and it killed the graphd daemon but i manually
> > >had to kill the argusctl -k console pid twice to get it to go away...
> > >after it was all shutoff i ran /etc/init.c/argus start but now 'ps aux'
> > >isn't showing any argus processes.. the page seems to be running ok but
> > >i'm not really clear on how it stays up, does the cgi script do all the
> > >work, or should there be an actual daemon running? 
> > >
> > >thanks, 
> > >august
> > >
> > >* Neil Campbell <Neil.Campbell at sun.com>
> > >  |__ Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:47:53PM -0600:
> > >
> > >>Hi August,
> > >>
> > >>Make sure you only have one instance of argus running.
> > >>
> > >>Try running 'argusctl shutdown' multiple times until there are no argus 
> > >>process running, then run 'argusd' once to start it again.
> > >>
> > >>Hope that helps,
> > >>Neil
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>august macbeth wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Jeff, 
> > >>>
> > >>>thanks for the reply. there is nothing in the "Unacked Notifications"
> > >>>page, and i have since changed the config quite a bit.. how can i still
> > >>>be getting this? is there any way to manually clear the queue? 
> > >>>
> > >>>thanks, 
> > >>>~august
> > >>>
> > >>>* Jeff Weisberg <jaw+arguslist at tcp4me.com>
> > >>>|__ Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:59:18PM -0400:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>| i just got argus going and love it.. i seem to be getting endless
> > >>>>| email's like below.. i had snmp monitoring setup initially, but now i
> > >>>>| dont have it setup, and  i dont have any notify's setup therefore i
> > >>>>| would think i shouldn't be getting these:
> > >>>>| 
> > >>>>| Subject: Argus RESENT
> > >>>>| 28929 Top:<hostname>:SNMP_.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.10.1_<fqdn> is DOWN
> > >>>>| - 06/Apr 16:43
> > >>>>| 
> > >>>>| the "06/Apr 16:43" is the same on all the emails, not sure why it 
> > >>>>keeps
> > >>>>| getting sent.. 
> > >>>>| 
> > >>>>| any help appreciated, 
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>you have not acknowledged the notification and have not enabled autoack.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>	http://argus.tcp4me.com/notif.html
> > >>>>
> > >>>>_______________________________________________
> > >>>>http://argus.tcp4me.com/
> > >>>>Arguslist at tcp4me.com
> > >>>>http://www.tcp4me.com/mailman/listinfo/arguslist
> > >>>
> > >>>_______________________________________________
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> > >>>Arguslist at tcp4me.com
> > >>>http://www.tcp4me.com/mailman/listinfo/arguslist
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>_______________________________________________
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> > >>Arguslist at tcp4me.com
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> > >
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> > >
> > 
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