<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <title>Problem with restart</title> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>My experiences, and believe those of others as well, have shown that the nagios restart command does not always work so well. You will have better luck by issuing a stop command and then a start command.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tim Van Zee</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>ITS Network Specialist</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Governors</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy'> </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>State</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:navy'> </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>University</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Josh Van As [mailto:JVanas@finncorp.com] <br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Tuesday, September 02, 2003</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>12:06 PM</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Nagios-users] Problem with restart</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>If I issue the following command:</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios restart</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I receive the following:</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Running configuration check...done</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Stopping network monitor: nagios</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Starting network monitor: nagios</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>su: warning: cannot change directory to : No such file or directory</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This account is currently not available.</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> PID TTY TIME CMD</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>27803 ? </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>00:00:00</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> nagios</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>What do these lines mean:</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>su: warning: cannot change directory to : No such file or directory</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This account is currently not available.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Did I set something up incorrectly? The service does seem to restart correctly……</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>TIA,</span></font></p> <p style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Josh</span></font></p> </div> </body> </html>