Error: Could not create external command file '/usr/local/nagios/ var/rw/nagios.cmd' as named pipe: (17) -> File exists .

[Frater, Greg J]

If your not starting from the /etc/init.d/nagios script and you are
using external commands you have to manually delete this file between
restarts.  
 
type:  rm /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrade, Leonardo F. Buonsanti de (IT - Brasil)
[mailto:leoandrade at deloitte.com.br]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:12 AM
To: nagios-users
Subject: [Nagios-users] Error: Could not create external command file
'/usr/local/nagios/ var/rw/nagios.cmd' as named pipe: (17) -> File
exists.
Importance: High



Anyone knows what is this ? how can I do to get this file updated or,
deleted and created again ???

 

[root at brspomoni root]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

 

Nagios 1.0

Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)

Last Modified: 11-24-2002

License: GPL

 

Nagios 1.0 starting... (PID=1842)

Error: Could not create external command file
'/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' as named pipe: (17) -> File
exists.  If this file already exists and you are sure that another copy
of Nagios is not running, you should delete this file.

Bailing out due to errors encountered while trying to open the external
command file for reading... (PID=1842)

 

Leonardo Francisco Buonsanti de Andrade

Data Security & IT Telecom

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

* (5511) 31501877/1931

*leoandrade at deloitte.com.br

 

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