problem starting nagios

[Scott]

Another point on this is that are you sure you are starting nagios as the
right user and that the directory is owned by and can be written to by
that user?

I think this is nagios/var if I am not mistaken that you are talking about
anyway.

Steve Loughran said:
> obvious question, but you have installed the nagios plugins, havent you?
> They do not come as part of the standard nagios install, you have to do
> that seperately...
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Bilder" <JBilder at netrixllc.com>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:29 PM
> Subject: [Nagios-users] problem starting nagios
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I seem to be having a problem starting nagios.  It all has to do with
>> the
> status.log file.  Everytime I start nagios it cannot find any
> hosts/services due to the fact that it did not create a status.log file.
>  While nagios is running in the background, I did a "touch status.log"
> as well as "chown nagios:nagios status.log"  and "chmod 644 status.log"
> then I did a "kill -HUP nagios.pid"  It then proceeded to change
> status.log to
> status.sav.  The contents of the file are as follows:
>>
>> # Nagios 1.0b6 Retention File
>> CREATED: 1037290939
>> PROGRAM: 1;1;1;1;0;0;1;0
>> HOST:
>> FS1;1;1037289573;1;10;3158;0;1037287387;1;1;1;0;1;1;1;1037287387;(No
> output!)
>> SERVICE:
> FS1;Ping;2;1037289573;0;0;0;0;3158;0;0;1;1;1;1;0;1;1;1;1;1037287387;(Return
> code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing)
>>
>>
>>
>> The service keeps on running though.  I looked into the nagios.log
>> file
> and it says that everything is running fine.  This is the only error
> message that I have found to show up.  The nagios service starts just
> fine.  Would anyone happen to know exactly why this would be happening?
> Thanks!
>>
>> - Jeff
>>
>>
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