[rtg] rtg re-reading a targets file

[Brian T. O'Neill]

I've had the same problem in 0.8...

Brian

Quoting Steve Scaffidi (sscaffidi at gmail.com) from  :
> 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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