Getting state retention to work

[Rob Tanner]

Shiv,

That was it.  I was staring at it all along and then it suddenly dawned 
on me -- nagios runs as the nagios user and not as root.  Changed 
ownership of the file and it works now.

-- Rob


Shivkumar said the following on 08/08/2007 09:01 PM:
>
> Rob Tanner said the following:
>> Marc,
>>
>> The retain_status_information and retain_nonstatus_information 
>> options are both set to 1 in the default templates at the top of the 
>> hosts.cfg and services.cfg files and I am specifying those default 
>> templates for almost all of the service and host entries.
>>
>> Something else must still be missing.
>>
> Could it be the permissions on the state.dat file?
>
> Regards,
> Shiv

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