[collectd] collectd.conf is overwritten every few hours

[Bostjan Skufca]

Configuration management maybe (puppet, chef et al)?
Also, I recently croned collectd restarts as it was found out there are
memory leaks.

b.



On 23 May 2013 16:23, Joaquin Cuenca Abela <joaquin at cuencaabela.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 with collectd 5.3.0 and running collectd with
> collectdmon. Every few hours (sometimes only a few minutes after a
> restart), my /etc/collectd/collectd.conf is overwritten by a default
> version of this file.
>
> These changes are close in time to some collectd restarts. In this example
> the file was written 1 minute after the last collectd restart:
>
> root at eu4:/etc/collectd# ls -ld collectd.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16457 May 23 13:37 collectd.conf
>
> May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: Exiting normally.
> May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: collectd: Stopping 5 read
> threads.
> May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: ping plugin: Shutting down
> thread.
> May 23 13:36:11 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: email: accept() failed: Bad
> file descriptor
> May 23 13:36:12 ns2281597 collectd[27197]: collectd: Stopping 5 write
> threads.
> May 23 13:36:12 ns2281597 collectdmon[27024]: Info: collectd terminated
> with exit status 0
> May 23 13:36:12 ns2281597 collectdmon[27024]: Info: shutting down
> collectdmon
> May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: cpufreq plugin: Found 8 CPUs
> May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: Initialization complete,
> entering read-loop.
> May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: rrdtool plugin: Adjusting
> "RandomTimeout" to 0.000 seconds.
> May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: tcpconns plugin: Reading from
> netlink succeeded. Will use the netlink method from now on.
> May 23 13:36:13 ns2281597 collectd[29066]: mysql plugin: Successfully
> connected to database thumbrit at server Localhost via UNIX socket (server
> version: 5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.1-log, protocol version: 10)
>
> Has anybody experienced before these overwrites? is it normal to have
> collectd restarting every few hours? Any way to prevent this file being
> overwritten?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Joaquin Cuenca Abela
>
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