Werk #3234: Make unixcat more robust

Name: checkmk
Rating: 4.7 (114 reviews)

Component

Core & setup

Title

Make unixcat more robust

Date

Feb 23, 2016

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

1.4.0i1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.2.8b3	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Previously it could happen that unixcat crashed when system resources and/or limits were low, especially the nproc limit. Now we emit sensible error messages and exit with new return codes (5 and 6).

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