<html><body bgcolor="#ffffff"><DIV></DIV> <DIV>All I had a sample version (out of the box) of nagios running, I made my config changes with my devices, etc, verified configuration...now nagios won't start! Here is my output any ideas?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>[root@dns bin]# ./nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg</DIV> <DIV>Nagios 3.0.6 Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (<A href="http://www.nagios.org/" mce_href="http://www.nagios.org/">http://www.nagios.org/</A>) Last Modified: 12-01-2008 License: GPL</DIV> <DIV>Reading configuration data...</DIV> <DIV>Running pre-flight check on configuration data...</DIV> <DIV>Checking services... Checked 81 services. Checking hosts... Checked 19 hosts. Checking host groups... Checked 3 host groups. Checking service groups... Checked 0 service groups. Checking contacts... Checked 3 contacts. Checking contact groups... Checked 3 contact groups. Checking service escalations... Checked 0 service escalations. Checking service dependencies... Checked 0 service dependencies. Checking host escalations... Checked 0 host escalations. Checking host dependencies... Checked 0 host dependencies. Checking commands... Checked 94 commands. Checking time periods... Checked 5 time periods. Checking for circular paths between hosts... Checking for circular host and service dependencies... Checking global event handlers... Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands... Checking misc settings...</DIV> <DIV>Total Warnings: 0 Total Errors: 0</DIV> <DIV>Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check [root@dns bin]# exit exit [naloi@dns bin]$ sudo service nagios restart [sudo] password for root: Running configuration check...done. Stopping nagios: done. Starting nagios:su: warning: cannot change directory to /var/spool/nagios: No such file or directory This account is currently not available. done. [naloi@dns bin]$ su Password: [root@dns bin]# sudo service nagios start Starting nagios:su: warning: cannot change directory to /var/spool/nagios: No such file or directory This account is currently not available. done. [root@dns bin]# service nagios start Starting nagios:su: warning: cannot change directory to /var/spool/nagios: No such file or directory This account is currently not available. done. [root@dns bin]# cd /var/spool [root@dns spool]# ls -lat total 52 drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 2009-07-10 05:00 clientmqueue drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2009-07-08 13:52 . drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 2009-07-07 04:10 mail drwx------ 2 root mail 4096 2009-07-07 04:10 mqueue drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-30 15:00 anacron drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2009-06-30 14:37 .. drwx--x--- 3 root lp 4096 2009-06-30 14:35 cups drwx------ 3 daemon daemon 4096 2009-06-30 14:26 at drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-12 13:02 repackage drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-04-07 17:44 lpd drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 2008-04-03 07:30 squid drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2008-03-03 12:51 vbox drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-02-12 10:18 cron [root@dns spool]# service httpd restart Stopping httpd: [ OK ] Starting httpd: [ OK ] [root@dns spool]# chkconfig --add nagios [root@dns spool]# chkconfig nagios on [root@dns spool]# service nagios start Starting nagios:su: warning: cannot change directory to /var/spool/nagios: No such file or directory This account is currently not available. done. [root@dns spool]# </DIV>Network Operations Center Manager Experis Data Center LLC 8209 Valley Pike PO Box 535 Middletown,VA 22645 phone:540-869-8702 cell:240-988-3267 fax:540-869-8710 e-mail:naloi@experisdatacenters.com</body></html>