<!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] changing location of cgi.cfg file</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Put your path in the NAGIOS_CGI_CONFIG environment variable (via apache's setenv). Nagios looks for this variable before using the default path. Same for NAGIOS_COMMAND_FILE. There is no way to configure it in the main configuration file because the main cfg file is referenced from the cgi cfg file. For a CGI, the only entry point is the cgi cfg. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Ensley [<A HREF="mailto:steve.ensley@gmail.com">mailto:steve.ensley@gmail.com</A>] Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 6:57 PM To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] changing location of cgi.cfg file The web front end (NagiosQL) I'm configuring for use with Nagios 2 assumes the configuration is in a directory structure off /etc/nagios. I've gotten everything working reasonably well except, and I know this is probably a painfully stupid question, but I cant find where to properly tell nagios where to find the cgi.cfg file. There doesnt seem to be a option for it in nagios.cfg, I tried a cfg_file= directive for it but it choked on that on startup. The manual refers to the "usual" location for the cgi.cfg file but doesnt seem to mention how to make it an unusual location. If its in /usr/local/nagios/etc, nagios is happy but NagiosQL cant find it unless I configure nagiosql to look for it there (I would prefer to keep all the config files together). If I put it in /etc/nagios where NagiosQL would like to find it by default then nagios starts OK but when you click on an option on the nagios web interface it chokes with "Error: Could not open CGI config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg' for reading!" which of course is not where it should be looking for it. I can make everything work by creating a symbolic link to /etc/nagios/cgi.cfg in /usr/local/nagios/etc/ but that's a clumsy hack and there is undoubtedly a proper way to change this. -- Steve Knowledge is power... Power Corrupts. Study hard... Be Evil. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! <A HREF="http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12&alloc_id" TARGET="_blank">http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12&alloc_id</A>344&op=click _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" TARGET="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </BODY> </HTML>