Nagios and its config files

frank ratty at they.org
Wed Apr 5 22:35:47 CEST 2006


On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Sam Rowe wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Somewhere between Nagios 2.0b4 and 2.1, Nagios started traversing
> .svn trees looking for config files. Is there any way to get it to
> ignore them?
>
> We have our live config in svn and would love to keep it there.
>
> Also, is there any chance that the restriction that only allows the
> main nagios config file to be called 'nagios.cfg' be removed? I can't
> imagine why it's there and it causes us to have to jump through lots
> of needless hoops to fail over (re-symlinking /usr/local/nagios/etc
> instead of just starting nagios with a different config file.)
>
> Thanks,
> Sam

I don't know about the subversion traversal, but you can easily change 
your default config file.

vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios

Look for "NagiosCfgFile". Edit as necessary.

-f


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