New to Nagios - Need help with nagios.cfg

[Marc Powell]

On Feb 16, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Eric Chatham wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I’m very new to Nagios.  I'm running version Nagios 3.0.6 on CentOS  
> RHEL 5.1. I used the FC6 instructions for my installation.  I’ve  
> successfully installed the program per the Quick-start guide  
> provided on the Website.  We presently have another server with an  
> older version of Nagios installed.  It’s using “cfg_dir=/opt/nagios/ 
> etc” as its location for all *.cfg giles.
>
> Here's a problem: When I try to create an alternate directory  
> (cfg_dir) in the nagios config file, I keep getting a CONFIG ERROR  
> when I try to restart the service. I would like to use “cfg_dir=/opt/ 
> nagios/etc/main” to hold all the config files. Here is a list of  
> that directory right now:
>
> [root@ ~ main]# ls -l
> total 68
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios  7714 Feb 13 16:55 commands.cfg
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios  2166 Feb 13 16:52 contacts.cfg
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios   240 Feb 13 14:28 hostgroups.cfg
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios   163 Feb 13 16:51 hosts.cfg
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios  2414 Feb 13 16:39 services.cfg
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 10812 Feb 13 16:41 templates.cfg
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios  3209 Feb 13 16:55 timeperiods.cfg
> [root@ ~ main]# service nagios restart
> Running configuration check... CONFIG ERROR!  Restart aborted.   
> Check your Nagios configuration.

Seems like one of the config files probably has an error in it. Run '/ 
path/to/nagios -v /path/to/nagios.cfg'.

--
Marc


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