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Hi Giles,<br>You 're rigth, i uncommented out these lines in my nagios.cfg file:<br><hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/servers/hostextinfo.cfg</span><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/servers/serviceextinfo.cfg</span><br style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span>Although i asked nagios to process all config files in a particular directory by defining this directive:<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/servers<br><br></span>where are located all my *.cfg files (configuration files).<br><br>Normaly i have to comment them out like this<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">#cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/servers/hostextinfo.cfg</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">#cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/servers/serviceextinfo.cfg<br><br></span>and let the cfg_dir line in nagios.cfg.<br><br>THANKS A LOT GURU<br>regards<br><br><br><br><div><br>ntoughe@hotmail.com</div><br><br>> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Hostextinfo.cfg configuration problems<br>> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:30:00 +0100<br>> From: gcoochey@sapphire.gi<br>> To: ntoughe@hotmail.com<br>> CC: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>> <br>> >Error: Could not allocate memory for hostextinfo list to add extended<br>> info for host 'americano'.<br>> >Error: Could not register extended host information (config file<br>> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/servers/hostextinfo.cfg', starting on line 6)<br>> <br>> <br>> Also, for your other errors, you may want to check that you are not<br>> parsing multiple configuration files, by having conflicting cfg_file &<br>> cfg_dir directives in Nagios.cfg.<br><br /><hr />Discover the new Windows Vista <a href='http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE' target='_new'>Learn more!</a></body>
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