Starting up Nagios

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Rutkowski [mailto:jrutkows at ramapo.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 1:18 PM
> To: Marc Powell
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Starting up Nagios
> 
> The nagios.log shows the following:
> 
> # cat var/nagios.log [1160063445] Nagios 2.5 starting... (PID=21659)
> [1160063445] LOG VERSION: 2.0 [1160063445] Error: Cannot open config
> file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/misccommands.cfg' for reading: No such
file
> or directory [1160063445] 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=21659)
> linux:/usr/local/nagios #

Please always respond on list unless you're sending sensitive
information. Others reading the archives in the future will be able to
benefit from your experience. 

The error above is indicating the file really doesn't exist in that
location or the permissions are such that the nagios user can't access
it. 

> 
> 
> The file is there, permission look good on it, not sure why it is
having
> a hard time with it. Ran the -v, it it looks ok. We get those 2
warnings
> in production.
> 
> 
> linux:/usr/local/nagios # ./bin/nagios -v
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> 
> Nagios 2.5
> Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org) Last
> Modified: 07-13-2006
> License: GPL
> 
> Reading configuration data...

[Chop]

> 
> Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the
> pre-flight check linux:/usr/local/nagios
> 
> 
> Any ideas?

Run your preflight as the nagios user, not root, since that's the user
that reads the files. I'm going to guess that the nagios user can't read
/usr/local/nagios/etc/misccommands.cfg due to permissions.

--
Marc

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