Checks don't wait the desired 5 minutes before becoming critical and paging

[Josh Van As]

I currently have my hosts / services setup to check every  60 seconds
and to retry 5 times.  By my understanding, it should take 5 minutes for
me to be informed of a failed host.  Is that correct?

Below is an example of what is happening:
I rebooted a host (quake).   Nagios does retry 5 times as expected
before paging.  However, the retry interval ranges from 2 to 10 seconds,
not 60.

What can I do to force this back to 60 seconds?

TIA!
-Josh

EXAMPLE:
[09-05-2003 10:36:06] SERVICE ALERT:
quake;homeseer;CRITICAL;HARD;1;Connection refused or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:36:06] SERVICE ALERT:
quake;smtp;CRITICAL;HARD;1;Connection refused or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:36:06] HOST NOTIFICATION:
josh;quake;DOWN;host-notify-by-email;Connection refused or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:36:05] HOST NOTIFICATION:
josh;quake;DOWN;host-notify-by-epager;Connection refused or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:36:05] HOST ALERT: quake;DOWN;HARD;5;Connection refused
or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:36:02] HOST ALERT: quake;DOWN;SOFT;4;Connection refused
or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:35:59] HOST ALERT: quake;DOWN;SOFT;3;Connection refused
or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:35:58] SERVICE ALERT:
quake;smtp;CRITICAL;HARD;1;Connection refused or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:35:56] HOST ALERT: quake;DOWN;SOFT;2;Connection refused
or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:35:54] SERVICE ALERT:
quake;homeseer;CRITICAL;HARD;1;Socket timeout after 10 seconds
[09-05-2003 10:35:53] HOST NOTIFICATION:
josh;quake;DOWN;host-notify-by-email;Connection refused or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:35:53] HOST NOTIFICATION:
josh;quake;DOWN;host-notify-by-epager;Connection refused or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:35:53] HOST ALERT: quake;DOWN;HARD;5;Connection refused
or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:35:53] HOST ALERT: quake;DOWN;SOFT;1;Connection refused
or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:35:50] HOST ALERT: quake;DOWN;SOFT;4;Connection refused
or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:35:47] HOST ALERT: quake;DOWN;SOFT;3;Connection refused
or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:35:44] HOST ALERT: quake;DOWN;SOFT;2;Connection refused
or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:35:41] HOST ALERT: quake;DOWN;SOFT;1;Connection refused
or timed out
[09-05-2003 10:34:51] SERVICE ALERT:
quake;homeseer;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;Connection refused by host
[09-05-2003 10:34:28] SERVICE ALERT:
quake;homeseer;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;Connection refused by host
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