FW: FW: Starting up Nagios

[Jeff Rutkowski]

Just noticed something else. I was doing a tail-f on the nagios.log file
while trying to strat up nagios, the file gets touchedand the
date/timestamp changes, but nothing is actually logged to the file. I
have probably been reading an old error message since there is no
timestamp in the file itself. Any Ideas?

 

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Jeff Rutkowski

Unix Administrator

Ramapo College of NJ

505 Ramapo Valley Rd. 

Mahwah, NJ 07430

(201) 684-6804

jrutkows at ramapo.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Sloane, Robert Raymond [mailto:sloane at ku.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:17 PM
To: jrutkows at ramapo.edu
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] FW: Starting up Nagios

The line length is not the problem.  Nagios will handle lines longer
than the sizes of the files involved.  Look at the permissions on the
directoryies above the etc directory.

-- 
Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045
Email:sloane at ku.edu http://www.ku.edu/home/sloane Phone:(785)864-0444
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Jeff Rutkowski
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:10 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] FW: Starting up Nagios
> 
> 
> Poking around I noticed something.... I wonder if this is part of the
> problem:
> 
> linux:/usr/local/nagios # file etc/nagios.cfg
> etc/nagios.cfg: ASCII English text
> linux:/usr/local/nagios # file etc/misccommands.cfg
> etc/misccommands.cfg: ASCII English text, with very long lines
> linux:/usr/local/nagios #    
> 
>  
> 
> ___________________
> 
> Jeff Rutkowski
> 
> Unix Administrator
> 
> Ramapo College of NJ
> 
> 505 Ramapo Valley Rd. 
> 
> Mahwah, NJ 07430
> 
> (201) 684-6804
> 
> jrutkows at ramapo.edu
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Rutkowski [mailto:jrutkows at ramapo.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 3:25 PM
> To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: FW: [Nagios-users] Starting up Nagios
> 
> 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?
> 
>  
> 
> ___________________
> 
> Jeff Rutkowski
> 
> Unix Administrator
> 
> Ramapo College of NJ
> 
> 505 Ramapo Valley Rd. 
> 
> Mahwah, NJ 07430
> 
> (201) 684-6804
> 
> jrutkows at ramapo.edu
> 
> 
> -----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 #
> 
> 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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