<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><SPAN class=420111222-16062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>No, that doesn't mean that "newbies" are trouble (at least I don't think so). </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=420111222-16062008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=420111222-16062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just installed Nagios 3.02 on CentOS 5.1 everything went fine, the "preflight" checked out ok. But I get the following message when I go to the "Service Detail" menu: Error: Could not read host and service status information!.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=420111222-16062008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=420111222-16062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now if I look at the event log file I see the following:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=420111222-16062008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>[06-16-2008 15:31:06] Bailing out due to errors encountered while trying to initialize the external command file... (PID=24983)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>[06-16-2008 15:31:06] Error: Could not create external command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' as named pipe: (2) -> No such file or directory. If this file already exists and you are sure that another copy of Nagios is not running, you should delete this file.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>[06-16-2008 15:31:06] Finished daemonizing... (New PID=24983)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>[06-16-2008 15:31:06] LOG VERSION: 2.0</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>[06-16-2008 15:31:06] Local time is Mon Jun 16 15:31:06 MDT 2008</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>[06-16-2008 15:31:06] Nagios 3.0.2 starting... (PID=24982)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=420111222-16062008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now the interesting thing is that the above referenced file does not in fact exist, in fact there is no /rw directory. Do I need to create the directory?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM></EM></FONT> </DIV></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Scott Ackerman</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>1212 Baker Street</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fort Collins, Colorado 80524</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Office - (970) 689-3999</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cell - (970) 231-9035</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fax - (888) 290-2131</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.us-able.com/">www.us-able.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works" - Steve Jobs</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>