Nagios fails to start

[David Jacobson]

Hi Cam,

Check the permissions of the directory.

Regards,
David

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 07:17 -0500, Cam Johnson wrote:
> I'm having a problem getting nagios to start even though the -v 
> test passes with no errors or warnings.  Running nagios with 
> strace produces the following error after it has read the 
> nagios.cfg file.
> 
> open("/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES 
> (Permission denied)
> 
> I have changed the permissions of the nagios.cfg file to 777.
> 
> Recompiling nagios with debug turned on yields the same error.
> I'm running nagios 2b4
> 
> Cam Johnson
> 
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