Config file permissions

[Atkin David]

As a newbie to Nagios I recently installed 2.0b3 and it's all working fine but I had a problem where following a HUP signal or an overnight restart, I got errors for every plug-in that it tried to run.
 
This turned out to be due to a permissions problem on the file /usr/local/nagios/etc/resources.cfg that defines the $USER1$ variable - the nagios user didn't have read access to it, and ended up trying to run all the plugins from "/". Of course when I started it initially as root, it read the file ok.
 
I worked it out in the end but an error message saying it couldn't read the file would have been helpful!
 
David Atkin
Head of Information Services
Writtle College, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 3RR
Tel: 26002 (internal),  01245 424240 (external)
 


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