Problems with RPM install

Minkov, Ross Ross.Minkov at hp.com
Wed Mar 8 03:22:51 CET 2006


> Results in Internal Server error. I don't know what your OS is but
this
> could be SELinux restrictions if you haven't allowed the proper
context
> for the Nagios sbin directory.

Short Question: Where is the nagios sbin directory if you installed from
RPM?


Long Story:
I just installed Nagios 2.0 (stable) on a FC4 system with SElinux
enabled. I used the fc3 RPMs from http://dag.wieers.com/packages/nagios/
(dag doesn't have the FC4 RPMs out there yet):

nagios-2.0-2.1.fc3.rf.i386

Also installed nagios-plugins-1.4.1-1.1.fc3.rf.i386 from
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/nagios-plugins/.

Seems to be ok, except I had to --nodep the installation of the plugins
and add "Ignore { nagios-plugins };" to my apt.conf file (yes, I'm still
using apt)... The reason was that it was complaining about Perl
Net-SNMP, but I already had it installed (net-snmp-perl)...

Then I copied my config files from an older server I had (with Nagios
1.2), changed a few things to comply with the new syntax and tried to
get the web interface configured.

I was able to get to the home page and read the online help/manual ok.
But any other attempt to click on hosts, services, etc would not work.
I'd get "Error: Could not read object configuration data!"

No trace of this in /var/log/nagios/nagios.log...

I assume I need to configure SElinux, but unfortunately I don't know
how. Any pointers would be appreciated.

I tried one thing:

chcon -R system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_script_exec_t /usr/lib/nagios/
(although I think I only need to do this on /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/)

But that didn't help a bit...


Thanks,
Ross


-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marc
Powell
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 7:41 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Problems with RPM install



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Brook Hurd
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 6:22 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Problems with RPM install
> 
> The RPM install of Nagios was fairly strait forward. I installed the
RPMs
> for Nagios and the Nagios-plugins along with the misc. required RPMs.
> Unfortunately, all the documentation is written toward a non rpm
install.
> 

Not too surprising since RPM installs can vary quite a bit depending on
the packager.

> The RPM file added all the appropriate httpd.conf configurations, and
I
> setup up proper users, etc. It is viewable at:
> 
> [link] <http://server.brookhurd.com/nagios/>
> 
> userid: guest
> password: guest

Results in Internal Server error. I don't know what your OS is but this
could be SELinux restrictions if you haven't allowed the proper context
for the Nagios sbin directory.

> 
> [root at server nagios]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios start
> Starting network monitor: nagios
> CONFIG ERROR! Start aborted. Check your Nagios configuration.
> [root at server nagios]#
> 
> I just cannot get it to run and cannot see the issue with the Nagios
> config.

Run /path/to/nagios -v /path/to/nagios.cfg. Nagios will verify your
configuration files and report any errors.

 
> I even altered ownership info in the 'nagios.conf' to root:

What is the contents of this file? There isn't a nagios.conf that's part
of the standard distribution.

--
Marc 


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