[CentOS] Warning: Size of service_message struct (8376 bytes) is > POSIX-guaranteed atomic write size (512 bytes).

Thu May 31 09:13:22 UTC 2012
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 05/30/2012 11:21 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Nagios on CentOS release 5.5 (Final). Any clue about the below
> warning? Please let me know if any one needs any additional information.
>
> /usr/sbin/nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
>
> Nagios 2.12
> Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
> Last Modified: 05-19-2008
> License: GPL
>
> Reading configuration data...
>
> Running pre-flight check on configuration data...
>
> *Warning: Size of service_message struct (8376 bytes) is > POSIX-guaranteed
> atomic write size (512 bytes).  Service checks results may get lost or
> mangled!*
> Checking services...
> Checked 341 services.
> Checking hosts...
> Checked 27 hosts.
> Checking host groups...
> Checked 13 host groups.
> Checking service groups...
> Checked 3 service groups.
> Checking contacts...
> Checked 27 contacts.
> Checking contact groups...
> Checked 10 contact groups.
> Checking service escalations...
> Checked 0 service escalations.
> Checking service dependencies...
> Checked 0 service dependencies.
> Checking host escalations...
> Checked 0 host escalations.
> Checking host dependencies...
> Checked 0 host dependencies.
> Checking commands...
> Checked 77 commands.
> Checking time periods...
> Checked 4 time periods.
> Checking extended host info definitions...
> Checked 0 extended host info definitions.
> Checking extended service info definitions...
>  Checked 0 extended service info definitions.
> Checking for circular paths between hosts...
> Checking for circular host and service dependencies...
> Checking global event handlers...
> Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
> Checking misc settings...
>
> Total Warnings: 1
> Total Errors:   0
>
> Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight
> check

Google seems to think this can be ignored ... and it looks like it is
being ignored by EPEL:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=469198



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