FreeBSD could not get group entry for Nagios

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
> <quote who="Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)">
>   
>> For info - this warning does not prevent Nagios from starting up -
>> however if you add a group called "nagios" it goes away.
>> Perhaps there's a bug in this/other versions where it checks for the
>> specific group called "nagios" and not the one used in the configure
>> script - or is this a "feature?" ;)
>>     
>
> in nagios.cfg:
>
> # NAGIOS GROUP
> # This determines the effective group that Nagios should run as.
> # You can either supply a group name or a GID.
>
> nagios_group=nagios
>
>   
Ah brill! Thanks for that Robert :)
I hadn't thought about checking the config - I thought that's what the 
configure option was for :S

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Andy Shellam
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