FW: Starting up Nagios

[Jeff Rutkowski]

Hi Marc,
This is what the permissions on the file look like:

-rw-rw-r--   1 jrutkows users 13803 Oct  4 16:26 minimal.cfg
-rw-rw-r--   1 jrutkows users  4290 Oct 10 15:10 misccommands.cfg
-rw-rw-r--   1 jrutkows users 21770 Oct  5 15:49 nagios.cfg

The file is in the /usr/local/nagios/etc directory.
I've re-set the permissions, also copied it to a backup, removed the
original file and moved the backup back into place and still getting the
same error in the nagios.log file. The path is correct in the nagios.cfg
file as well:

# Misc commands (notification and event handler commands, etc)
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/misccommands.cfg


I deleted and re-added the path in nagios.cfg, still no luck. Any ideas?

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marc
Powell
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:05 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Starting up Nagios


> -----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 #

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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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