<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2656.60"> <TITLE>RE : [Nagios-users] config file problems</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> I also have nagios 2.0b2 and 2.0b3 on solaris 9 and it works perfectly. The syntax of your define section is good as I have the same. How do you check your configuration ? Did you understand that your command line is referencing a 'main configuration file', where you find references to 'object definition files'. These two files don't have the same syntax. If you check an object definition file via the '-v' switch, it won't work and (I just tried it with my timeperiods.cfg file), you get an error message like this one : Error in configuration file '/p2/nagios/etc/timeperiods.cfg' - Line 6 (NULL value) I think it is what you are doing. If I am right, look in the documentation, chapter 'Configuring Nagios'/'Configuration overview'. There, you will find an explanation of the different types of configuration files and their relations. François </BODY> </HTML>