New install - nagios-2.0b3

[Arno Lehmann]

Albert Whale wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Arno!
> 
> Arno Lehmann wrote:
> 
> I start it as follows:
> 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
> 
> There is nothing on the command line, and also no process running, so I 
> have to seek out the syslog information to find the following:
> 
> May 27 10:58:36 ns4 nagios: Nagios 2.0b3 starting... (PID=1633)
> May 27 10:58:36 ns4 nagios: LOG VERSION: 2.0
> May 27 10:58:36 ns4 nagios: 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=1633)
> 
> Again, the vicious cycle begins.  Do I need any environment variables 
> set for this to work???  I get the same errors from the init.script 
> startup for nagios.

Nothing like environment variables should be necessary.

First thing - check that nagios has the necessary rights to access its 
configuration files, as I don't know if the config check switches user 
before working. Simply use su - nagios to become the nagios user.

Second, you might try to run nagios in the foreground and under strace 
or the debugger to see what it does.
I never tried it with nagios, and I'm not a programmer or even 
experienced debugger, but quite often, I found, the last file operations 
will tell you a lot about why a program terminates.

Then, I find lots of DEBUG ifdefs in Nagios' source, so it might be a 
possibility to recompile nagios with -DDEBUG0 etc. and watch that working.

Arno


> Any Ideas?
> 
> 
> 

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IT-Service Lehmann                    al at its-lehmann.de
Arno Lehmann                  http://www.its-lehmann.de


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