<div><div>Danny, you have the same start section as it is on my system. If you look a little bit further in the file you find this section prefix=/usr exec_prefix=/usr NagiosBin=/usr/bin/nagios NagiosCfgFile=/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg NagiosStatusFile=/var/log/nagios/status.dat NagiosTempFile=/var/log/nagios/nagios.tmp NagiosRetentionFile=/var/log/nagios/retention.dat NagiosCommandFile=/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd NagiosVarDir=/var/log/nagios NagiosRunFile=/var/run/nagios.pid NagiosLockDir=/var/lock/subsys NagiosLockFile=nagios NagiosCGIDir=/usr/lib/nagios/cgi NagiosUser=nagios NagiosGroup=nagios # added by thorsten HOME=/var/log/nagios This solves the problem of the /home problem, so I before other people are running in the same problem it is better to add it in the distritbution. I am using Nagios 2.5 rpm for RH ES 3, updated to 2.7 with an rpm build by my own. Thorsten <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #000000; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;">An: TKocher@spirit21.de Von: Daniel Meyer <eagle@cyberdelia.de> Datum: 26.01.2007 08:45AM Kopie: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Thema: Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: $HOME is not set in init script On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, TKocher@spirit21.de wrote: > Daniel, > > nagios is started in /etc/init.d/nagios with "su - nagios -c nagios", so the process > inherits the environment varialbes of the root user, which executes the su command. > ($HOME is /root) Which distribution are you using? My init-script (based on the one from Dag Wieers Nagios-RPM) starts nagios this way: case "$1" in start) echo "Starting network monitor: nagios" $NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1; if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then su - $NagiosUser -c "/usr/bin/ndo2db -c /etc/nagios/ndo2db.cfg" su - $NagiosUser -c "touch $NagiosVarDir/nagios.log $NagiosRetentionFile" rm -f $NagiosCommandFile touch $NagiosRunFile chown $NagiosUser:$NagiosGroup $NagiosRunFile $NagiosBin -d $NagiosCfgFile Danny -- Q: Gentoo is too hard to install = <a href="http://www.cyberdelia.de">http://www.cyberdelia.de</a> and I feel like whining. = eagle@cyberdelia.de A: Please see /dev/null. = (from the gentoo installer FAQ) = \o/ </blockquote> </div></div>