Yep, however the hosts after the invaild hostname will provide a warning error stating that they have no services defined, so you can tell where the error is... Tom Lichti <tom@redpepperracing.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Well, after seeing how I could 'save time' with the tips, I spent a day re-organizing my services file into templates and multi-host services. And it didn't work. So much for saving time. Any service that has multiple hosts in the host_name line seem to be completely ignored, and do not generate errors with the nagios -v test. The problem was that I had a host in the list of 'host_name' that didn't exist in the hosts definition. It didn't give a warning to that effect though, it just stopped processing the hosts after that. For example, I had define service{ use generic-websrvr-service host_name websrvr-100,websrvr-101,websrvr-102,websrvr-103,websrvr-104,websrvr-105,we bsrvr-106,websrvr-107,websrvr-108,websrvr-109,websrvr-110,websrvr-112,websr vr-113,websrvr-114,websrvr-115,websrvr-116,websrvr-117,websrvr-118,websrvr- 119 service_ description Disk Space check_command check_all_disks_r!!85!95 } But websrvr-107 did not exist in the hosts file, so it appears that it stops processing the list of hosts if it finds one that does not exist in the hosts definitions. Ok, fine, except that there was no warning! Argh. Anyway, I've fixed my services file, but that was a bit of pain to find. Tom ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</BLOCKQUOTE> ----- Jon Lyons Black Honda F3 #800 <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/careers/mailsig/*http://www.hotjobs.com ">HotJobs</a> - Search new jobs daily now