nagios starting problem

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Mon Dec 19 22:28:51 CET 2005


On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Askar Ali wrote:

> I have installed nagios 2.0b6 on OS slackware, when I starts it, it
> gives error...
> (actaully migrated from one machine to another which were running 2.0b2)
>
> /etc/rc.d/rc.nagios start
> Starting network monitor: nagios
> No directory, logging in with HOME=/

Sounds like you need to improve the settings for your nagios user. Give it
a home directory. (Like the RPM's do with /var/log/nagios as $HOME for
our friend nagios.)

And I bet you got other issues which you did not setup correctly either.

Hugo.

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