Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lock file

[eric.berg at barclayscapital.com]

Gee, this seems like an annoying newbie problem, but if Nagios crashes or is killed (as on system reboot), it leaves a lock file around that prevents it from starting again until the lock file is manually removed.

I see this on Monday mornings after weekend reboots on a Red Hat Linux box:

nagios: Lockfile '/home/nagios/nagios/var/nagios.lock' looks like its already held by another instance of Nagios (PID 0).  Bailing out...

Does anyone know if there's a config option or something else that obviates the need to write a wrapper scropt to check to see if Nagios is really running and remove the lock file (look slike Nagios already knows it's not running by virtue of the value of the PID inthis very message!) so that it can cleanly start up again?

Thanks.

Eric

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