[ris-int] riswhois: did nagios report outdated info?

Hi Ops,

This one might be for Gerard (as he did the nagios config for this):

I noticed that riswhoisd (on halfweg) is no longer refreshing it's
data:

whois -h riswhois sources
% This is RIPE NCC's Routing Information Service
% whois gateway to collected BGP Routing Tables
% IPv4 or IPv6 address to origin prefix match
%
% For more information visit http://www.ripe.net/ris/riswhois.html

rrc00 20040915 1600Z 
rrc01 20040915 1600Z 
rrc03 20040915 1600Z 
rrc04 20040915 1600Z 
rrc05 20040915 1600Z 
rrc06 20040915 1600Z 
rrc07 20040915 1600Z 
rrc10 20040915 1600Z 
rrc11 20040915 1600Z 
rrc12 20040915 1600Z 


It's 6 days ago since riswhoisd last parsed the BGP dump data files.
When this happened a few months ago, Gerard implemented rules in
nagios that should check for outdated timestamps.

Question:  did nagios give you such a report in the last days ????
If not, please consider this a request to fix it. I will not
restart riswhoisd until tomorrow this time, to give you a chance
to test the nagios setup for the up-to-date check.

ris-int: it's not clear why riswhoisd can't refresh; it used to
work fine; probably it somehow cannot fork a new process that
refreshes data while the main daemon continues listening.
more debug code will have to be added to riswhois to be able
to track this in future. For now the only remedy is a cold 
restart of the daemon.

-- Rene