getting a ps error when trying to start

[Andreas Ericsson]

This issue is due to a bug in the init-script. For some reason fedora 
changed ps version and thus calling convention in fc 3. I don't have 
access to an fc3 to try a definite fix.

Marc Powell wrote:
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Brian W. Wathen [mailto:bwathen at iwu.edu]
>>Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:44 PM
>>To: Marc Powell
>>Subject: Re: RE: [Nagios-users] getting a ps error when trying to
> 
> start
> 
>>For some reason the verify option is not available. I've installed
>>nagios before on other operating systems but for some reason when
>>installing nagios on Red Hat it installs things in weird locations .
>>For instance nagios didn't create a lock file and I can't just run
>>nagios from a bash shell, I have to go to /etc/init.d
>>
> 
> 
> That is extremely unusual. Nagios, and Netsaint before it, have
> supported -v for years. Why can't you run it as I indicated, either for
> verification or in daemon mode? There should be no reason you shouldn't
> be able to do either unless the package maintainer has done some very
> bizarre things. Also, the init.d scripts are a convenience, not
> mandatory. Any program that can be started from an init.d script can be
> started from the command line, especially Nagios. Are you seeing errors?
> What are they?
> 
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> Marc
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