Initial problems

[scott]

Greetings

   I am just starting to use nagios and it looks promising.  Along with 
the documentation supplied, I am also using the text from the book Pro 
Nagios 2.0 by James Turnbull. 

   The version of nagios is 2.0 February 06, 2006 as this came with the 
SuSE Linux 11.0.

   Tried starting nagious and get these messages in the start:
nagios /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

Nagios 3.0.1
Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
Last Modified: 04-01-2008
License: GPL

Warning: comment_file variable ignored.  Comments are now stored in the 
status and retention files.
Warning: downtime_file variable ignored.  Downtime entries are now 
stored in the status and retention files.
Warning: aggregate_status_updates directive ignored.  All status file 
updates are now aggregated.
Warning: Cannot open log file '/usr/local/nagios/log/nagios.log' for writing
Nagios 3.0.1 starting... (PID=16379)
Warning: Cannot open log file '/usr/local/nagios/log/nagios.log' for writing
Local time is Mon Aug 25 22:20:44 EDT 2008
Warning: Cannot open log file '/usr/local/nagios/log/nagios.log' for writing
Warning: Cannot open log file '/usr/local/nagios/log/nagios.log' for writing
Warning: Duplicate definition found for command 'notify-by-email' 
(config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/minimal.cfg', starting on line 59)
Warning: Cannot open log file '/usr/local/nagios/log/nagios.log' for writing
Error: Could not add object property in file 
'/usr/local/nagios/etc/minimal.cfg' on line 60.
Warning: Cannot open log file '/usr/local/nagios/log/nagios.log' for writing
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=16379)

   I've tried using the afore mentioned directory to hold the log files 
as well as /var/log/nagios and /usr/local/nagios/etc but all three fail.

   Suggestions on how to resolve these errors would be appreciated.

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