[osiris] Scans that don't end

[Paul De Audney]

On Tue Dec 04, 2007 at 10:04:31 -0500, Yost, Karl wrote:
>I have Osiris 4.2.3, all was running perfectly for about 3 weeks, and then things went down hill. 
>
>About ½ of my hosts are no longer reporting back, and doing a status on them says "scanning host environment" and will continue on to the next day, at which time I get a message that the scan couldn't run because one was running already.

I have seen a similar problem.

Run a strace on the osirismd processes.

You will probably see a never ending loop of it attempting to open up a scan
database. The fix for this is to stop the scan, delete that db file and
then restart the scan.

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Paul De Audney

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