shoot not sure what is happening - cant start nagios (account unavailable)

Dale J. Chatham dale at chatham.org
Fri Jul 10 21:56:41 CEST 2009


Interesting, I think nagios has /sbin/nologin on mine.  WEll, as long as 
you're up and running, ...



Natalie Aloi wrote:
> not really sure what happened here...I tried your suggestion but still 
> same results, once I edited the etc/passwd file and gave nagios a 
> valid shell I could stop & start the service successfully.
>  
> [root at dns /]# vi /etc/passwd
> [root at dns /]# service nagios restart
> Running configuration check...done.
> Stopping nagios: ....done.
> Starting nagios: done.
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* Dale J. Chatham [mailto:dale at chatham.org]
>     *Sent:* Friday, July 10, 2009 03:08 PM
>     *To:* 'Natalie Aloi'
>     *Cc:* 'Nagios Users Mail-list'
>     *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] shoot not sure what is happening -
>     cant start nagios (account unavailable)
>
>     Try this: mkdir /var/spool/nagios chown nagios:nagios
>     /var/spool/nagios It looks like the directory does not exist and
>     since the init script runs nagios as user nagios, it can't create
>     it. Dale Natalie Aloi wrote: > All I had a sample version (out of
>     the box) of nagios running, I made > my config changes with my
>     devices, etc, verified configuration...now > nagios won't start!
>     Here is my output any ideas? > > [root at dns bin]# ./nagios -v
>     /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg > Nagios 3.0.6 > Copyright (c)
>     1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org/) > Last Modified:
>     12-01-2008 > License: GPL > Reading configuration data... >
>     Running pre-flight check on configuration data... > Checking
>     services... > Checked 81 services. > Checking hosts... > Checked
>     19 hosts. > Checking host groups... > Checked 3 host groups. >
>     Checking service groups... > Checked 0 service groups. > Checking
>     contacts... > Checked 3 contacts. > Checking contact groups... >
>     Checked 3 contact groups. > Checking service escalations... >
>     Checked 0 service escalations. > Checking service dependencies...
>     > Checked 0 service dependencies. > Checking host escalations... >
>     Checked 0 host escalations. > Checking host dependencies... >
>     Checked 0 host dependencies. > Checking commands... > Checked 94
>     commands. > Checking time periods... > Checked 5 time periods. >
>     Checking for circular paths between hosts... > Checking for
>     circular host and service dependencies... > Checking global event
>     handlers... > Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
>     > Checking misc settings... > Total Warnings: 0 > Total Errors: 0
>     > Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the
>     > pre-flight check > [root at dns bin]# exit > exit > [naloi at dns
>     bin]$ sudo service nagios restart > [sudo] password for root: >
>     Running configuration check...done. > Stopping nagios: done. >
>     Starting nagios:su: warning: cannot change directory to >
>     /var/spool/nagios: No such file or directory > This account is
>     currently not available. > done. > [naloi at dns bin]$ su > Password:
>     > [root at dns bin]# sudo service nagios start > Starting nagios:su:
>     warning: cannot change directory to > /var/spool/nagios: No such
>     file or directory > This account is currently not available. >
>     done. > [root at dns bin]# service nagios start > Starting nagios:su:
>     warning: cannot change directory to > /var/spool/nagios: No such
>     file or directory > This account is currently not available. >
>     done. > [root at dns bin]# cd /var/spool > [root at dns spool]# ls -lat
>     > total 52 > drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 2009-07-10 05:00
>     clientmqueue > drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2009-07-08 13:52 . >
>     drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 2009-07-07 04:10 mail > drwx------ 2
>     root mail 4096 2009-07-07 04:10 mqueue > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root
>     4096 2009-06-30 15:00 anacron > drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096
>     2009-06-30 14:37 .. > drwx--x--- 3 root lp 4096 2009-06-30 14:35
>     cups > drwx------ 3 daemon daemon 4096 2009-06-30 14:26 at >
>     drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-12 13:02 repackage >
>     drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-07 17:44 lpd > drwxr-x--- 2
>     squid squid 4096 2008-04-03 07:30 squid > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root
>     4096 2008-03-03 12:51 vbox > drwx------ 2 root root 4096
>     2008-02-12 10:18 cron > [root at dns spool]# service httpd restart >
>     Stopping httpd: [ OK ] > Starting > httpd: [ OK ] > [root at dns
>     spool]# chkconfig --add nagios > [root at dns spool]# chkconfig
>     nagios on > [root at dns spool]# service nagios start > Starting
>     nagios:su: warning: cannot change directory to >
>     /var/spool/nagios: No such file or directory > This account is
>     currently not available. > done. > [root at dns spool]# > Network
>     Operations Center Manager > Experis Data Center LLC > 8209 Valley
>     Pike > PO Box 535 > Middletown,VA 22645 > phone:540-869-8702 >
>     cell:240-988-3267 > fax:540-869-8710 >
>     e-mail:naloi at experisdatacenters.com >
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