UserCommand timeout

[martin_d]

I execute rkhunter (rootkit detector) as a UserCommand. When testing with "zabbix_agentd -p" is usually takes about 5 minutes to complete the scan and to eveluate the result correctly (I use grep & wc -l to return 0 or 1).
But when testing with "zabbix_get -s Hostname -k rkhunter.warn", the result is always 0, even if it should be 1.

Is there a timeout for UserCommands or some other reason?

[Alexei]

It is very bad idea to run long scripts in such way. It will be timeouted after 3 or 5 seconds be default, yet the process will continue.

It slows down ZABBIX server as well.

Please use combination of crontab and zabbix_sender instead.