[rtg] rtg re-reading a targets file

[Brian T. O'Neill]

I've run into the same problem on Solaris. HUP works for X amount of
time (where X is still unknown) on rtgpoll, and after that it doesn't
reload when it gets the HUP. It hasn't been a big enough annoyance for
me to research exactly why it stops paying attention to HUP's...

Brian

Quoting Steve Scaffidi (sscaffidi at gmail.com) from  :
> Just a quick comment - I'm using rtg 0.74 on a Solaris 7 system.
> 
> I had put a bunch of gauge oids in the targets file for rtg to poll, and let
> it do it's thing - but it gave me nothing but counter wrap errors. After
> searching the list archives, I fixed the issue by changing the bits field on
> those oids to 0 and then sent rtg a HUP. However, rtgpoll didn't recognize
> the change.
> 
> Stopping and restarting rtgpoll did the trick.
> 
> Since I don't know if this is a known behavior of the code in rtgpoll, I
> thought I'd bring it up. Since I now know to use 0 for the bits value of
> gauge taregts from now on, this really won't be an issue for me, but now
> it's posted on the list in case it is for someone out there.

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