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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">I’m very new to Nagios.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">I'm running version Nagios 3.0.6 on CentOS RHEL 5.1. I used the FC6 instructions for my installation. I’ve successfully installed the program per the Quick-start guide
provided on the Website. We presently have another server with an older version of Nagios installed. It’s using “cfg_dir=/opt/nagios/etc” as its location for all *.cfg giles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Here's a problem: When I try to create an alternate directory (cfg_dir) in the nagios config file, I keep getting a CONFIG ERROR when I try to restart the
service. I would like to use “cfg_dir=/opt/nagios/etc/main” to hold all the config files. Here is a list of that directory right now:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><code><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt">[root@ ~ main]# ls -l</span></code><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New""><br>
<code>total 68</code><br>
<code>-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 7714 Feb 13 16:55 commands.cfg</code><br>
<code>-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 2166 Feb 13 16:52 contacts.cfg</code><br>
<code>-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 240 Feb 13 14:28 hostgroups.cfg</code><br>
<code>-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 163 Feb 13 16:51 hosts.cfg</code><br>
<code>-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 2414 Feb 13 16:39 services.cfg</code><br>
<code>-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 10812 Feb 13 16:41 templates.cfg</code><br>
<code>-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 3209 Feb 13 16:55 timeperiods.cfg</code><br>
<code>[root@ ~ main]# service nagios restart</code><br>
<code>Running configuration check... CONFIG ERROR! Restart aborted. Check your Nagios configuration.<o:p></o:p></code></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><code><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></code></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">I've hashed out all the other cfg in nagios.cfg to only use this directory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">[root@ ~ main]# grep cfg_ /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/timeperiods.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/templates.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># cfg_file=/opt/nagios/etc/commands.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># cfg_file=/opt/nagios/etc/contacts.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># cfg_file=/opt/nagios/etc/timeperiods.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># cfg_file=/opt/nagios/etc/templates.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/localhost.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">cfg_dir=/opt/nagios/etc/main</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/switch.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/printer.cfg</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># extension) in a particular directory by using the cfg_dir</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/servers</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/printers</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/switches</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/routers</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""># object configuration files (see the cfg_file and cfg_dir options above).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Please help! Thanks.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"">Eric Chatham<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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