I am getting this response when I start the nagios on my linux machine...

[Christy.New at cancer.org]

when you say ps, just type it in at the command prompt?

Very Respectfully,
Christy M. New
1(404)327-6490
American Cancer Society
Corporate IT-NHO NOC
Network Infrastructure Engineer


                                                                           
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do a ps and check if the nagios daemon is running.

it sounds like the nagios user doesn't have a home directory, which
shouldn't affect nagios

The answers to many of your questions can be found in documentation.

--kyle
On 11/1/07, Christy.New at cancer.org <Christy.New at cancer.org> wrote:
>
> Total Warning: 0
> Tatal Errors:0
>
> Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the
pre-flight.
> So then I type:
> etc/init.d/nagios start
> and it says
> starting nagios: no directory, logging in with home=/done.
>
> Does this mean that it is started?
>
>
>
> Very Respectfully,
> Christy M. New
> 1(404)327-6490
> American Cancer Society
> Corporate IT-NHO NOC
> Network Infrastructure Engineer
>
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