Error: Could not read host and service status information!

[Trevor Warren]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:10:02 +0800, Sam Lee (ia2) <ia2 at super.net.sg> wrote:
> 
> I'm testing Nagios right now and have started it using 'nagios nagios.cfg'
> in the terminal. Ran it using root. 
[snip]

  You need to rtfm dear chappie. Root will not do. 


> 
> Also, when i click on the event log, it gave me an error message: 
> Error: Could not open log file '/var/log/nagios/nagios.log' for reading! 
[snip]

 Check permissions pls. Its a permission issue.

Trevor

> 
> I've check that the path is valid. 
> 
> Any help/advice will be much appreciated! 
> 
> Regards, 
> Sam 
>   


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