help with cfg's

Joe Rhett jrhett at meer.net
Wed Sep 1 00:10:06 CEST 2004


Because the configured user has no rights to the file?

This isn't a nagios problem.  You need to learn more about unix/linux/whatever.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:05:07PM -0500, Don {KMTS}.Net Support wrote:
> Actually when I try to run it I get this error:
> 
> 
> [root at localhost root]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios nagios.cfg
> 
> Nagios 1.2
> Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
> Last Modified: 02-02-2004
> License: GPL
> 
> Error: Cannot open main configuration file '/root/nagios.cfg' for reading!
> Nagios 1.2 starting... (PID=4329)
> Bailing out due to one or more errors encountered in the configuration
> files.  Run Nagios from the command line with the -v option to verify your
> config before restarting. (PID=4329)
> [root at localhost root]#
> 
> I have looked at the nagios.cfg file (it is in the appropriate folder) and I
> dont see why it is not starting.
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> Don
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Rhett [mailto:jrhett at meer.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:53 PM
> To: Don {KMTS}.Net Support
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] help with cfg's
> 
> 
> Is nagios actually running?  Have you checked your process list?
> 
> If so, are the permissions on the nagios files correct?
> 
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:19:24PM -0500, Don {KMTS}.Net Support wrote:
> > Thank you for all the replies, I have done just that.  Is there a better
> set
> > of instructions on how to actually configure Nagios other than the Nagios
> > site itself, I have gone through their "how to set the cfg's" faq, but I
> am
> > still gettin this error:
> > Error: Could not read host and service status information
> >
> > Now it seems from the error this is a common problem with new
> installs...but
> > I am lost in how to adjust the cfg files etc...
> > Any help on links or advice is greatly appreciated.
> > Don
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cook, Garry [mailto:GWCOOK at mactec.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:23 PM
> > To: Don {KMTS}.Net Support; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] help with cfg's
> >
> >
> > nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I am new to this mailing group as I have just installed
> > > Nagios and I am
> > > having problems (if everything went fine I would be asking for help:).
> > > What I installed Nagios on was Fedora 1, I compiled the files
> > > instead of the
> > > rpm's.  I followed the instructions on the "How-to" page
> > > explicitly, my
> > > questions is this:
> > > Where should the cfg files that it installed as sample files
> > > be copied to,
> > > currently they are in my /usr/local/nagios/etc folder.  I
> > > copied each file
> > > name that had *.sample on the to just *.cfg and looked at each file
> > > individually...maybe  am getting ahead of myself here...if
> > > someone could
> > > share with me where exactly the files should go, or to simply
> > > leave them
> > > where they are.
> > > Thank you,
> > > Don
> >
> > I thought that the sample configs were installed in
> > /usr/local/nagios/etc/samples by default. At least they were with Nagios
> > 1.2. Either way, the correct location for the cfg files is the path that
> > you stated above, /usr/local/nagios/etc/, unless you install to a
> > non-default location. Either way, they should be in
> > <path_to>/nagios/etc/. Just make sure that you remove the -sample suffix
> > from the filenames.
> >
> > Garry W. Cook, CCNA
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