[rtg] rtgpoll failed: using btoneill's targetmaker

[Yu Safin]

On 11/14/06, bill fumerola <billf at mu.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:35:03PM -0500, Yu Safin wrote:
> > Now, when I execute the rtgpoll, it just returns like it worked but it
> > is not what I expected.
>
> you should check the syslog to see what messages if any were logged.
>
> following that you should run with '-d' and use strace/ktrace/etc from
> your OS and see what the process is doing.
>
> all of this discussion should be on the mailing list to help other people
> with similar problems.
>
>
> -- bill
>
This is what I get when I run rtgpoll.
I am running SLES 10.  I will read about strace to see how I can use it.

caplan:/usr/local/rtg/bin # ./rtgpoll -d -vvv -t /opt/rtg/etc/targets.cfg

caplan:/usr/local/rtg/bin # tail -10 /var/log/localmessages
Nov 14 15:01:54 caplan rtgpoll: RTG version 0.8.1 starting.
Nov 14 15:01:54 caplan rtgpoll: Daemon detached
Nov 14 15:01:54 caplan rtgpoll: Checking another instance with pid 27266.
Nov 14 15:01:54 caplan rtgpoll: PID 27266 is no longer running. Starting anyway.
Nov 14 15:01:54 caplan rtgpoll: Using RTG config file
[/usr/local/rtg/etc/rtg.conf].
Nov 14 15:01:54 caplan rtgpoll: Initialize hash table pointers: 20000 bytes.
Nov 14 15:01:54 caplan rtgpoll: Reading RTG target list
[/opt/rtg/etc/targets.cfg].
Nov 14 15:01:54 caplan rtgpoll: Successfully hashed [0] targets, (0 bytes).
Nov 14 15:01:54 caplan rtgpoll: Error updating target list.