<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">You need to braces - { and } - looks like you have a mixed bracket and a brace ( and }<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> Duncs</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 19 Jun 2007, at 15:42, RR wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Whenever I run 'nagios -v nagios.cfg', I get the following error:<DIV><BR class="webkit-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV>Error: Service check command 'check_ldap' specified in service 'server-check_ldap' for host 'ldap-server' not defined anywhere! </DIV><DIV> Checked 36 services.</DIV><BR class="webkit-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But it doesn't work when I edit my commands.cfg file to include the following:</DIV><DIV><BR class="webkit-block-placeholder"> </DIV><DIV><DIV>define command(</DIV><DIV> command_name check_ldap</DIV><DIV> command_line $USER1$/check_ldap -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -b $ARG1$</DIV><DIV> }</DIV><BR class="webkit-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>After I add the above statement to cmy command.cfg file, I get </DIV><DIV><BR class="webkit-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Error: Invalid object definition type 'command(' in file '/etc/nagios/commands.cfg' on line 64. </DIV><DIV><BR class="webkit-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">control of your XML. 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