Newbie Trouble

[Scott Ackerman]

No, that doesn't mean that "newbies" are trouble (at least I don't think
so). 
 
Just installed Nagios 3.02 on CentOS 5.1 everything went fine, the
"preflight" checked out ok. But I get the following message when I go to the
"Service Detail" menu: Error: Could not read host and service status
information!.
 
Now if I look at the event log file I see the following:
 
[06-16-2008 15:31:06] Bailing out due to errors encountered while trying to
initialize the external command file... (PID=24983)
 
[06-16-2008 15:31:06] Error: Could not create external command file
'/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' as named pipe: (2) -> No such file or
directory. If this file already exists and you are sure that another copy of
Nagios is not running, you should delete this file.
 
[06-16-2008 15:31:06] Finished daemonizing... (New PID=24983)
 
[06-16-2008 15:31:06] LOG VERSION: 2.0
 
[06-16-2008 15:31:06] Local time is Mon Jun 16 15:31:06 MDT 2008
 
[06-16-2008 15:31:06] Nagios 3.0.2 starting... (PID=24982)
 
Now the interesting thing is that the above referenced file does not in fact
exist, in fact there is no /rw directory. Do I need to create the directory?
 
 
 
Scott Ackerman
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