newbie stuff?

[Marc Powell]

This could be an indication that you have a problem with your config
files. I would stop nagios (killing any processes by hand that remain),
verify that nagios.lock and rw/nagios.cmd do not exist and run
'/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg' to
verify your config files. If all looks good, start nagios using the init
script. If it fails, look in nagios.log for information. If nothing
indicative of a problem is there, verify that the nagios user can write
to /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock to create the pid file.

Creating the file by hand will cause nagios to fail every time.

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tex Mitchell [mailto:tex at techmergency.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:29 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> I'm having a problem with the nagios.lock file.  It complains that
it's
> not there.  I made the file with nothing in it (As I understand it,
it's
> supposed to be auto-propagated with the current Nagios PID) to see if
that
> would kick-start it, but then it complains that it can't do a "ps -p"
> without a PID.  Paul?  Anybody?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tex Mitchell
> tex at techmergency.com
> http://techmergency.com
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