[rtg] rtg re-reading a targets file

[Steve Scaffidi]

So - is this behavior only for rtg 0.74 or does it carry over into 0.81?


On 6/2/06, Brian T. O'Neill <btoneill at misplaced.net> wrote:
>
> 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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