[smokeping-users] apache alias setup?

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Tue, 26 May 2009, Sipponen, Sami wrote:

> ... from time to time Smokeping stops measuring and starts drawing
> blank graph. This happens maybe once in a month and is that rarely
> that I'm not actually interested on the root cause. However I'd like
> to monitor when Smokeping stops measuring and restart the Smokeping
> daemon or maybe even restart the whole server.

> I have automatical update script which uploads new configuration to
> Smokeping once every night and probably it will get Smokeping
> confused when the config is reloaded too many times.

That might be the reason for the problem.

Why not just do something like

/usr/bin/killall smokeping ; /bin/sleep 5 ; /usr/sbin/smokeping

after your nightly update?

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73,
Ged.