Warning: Could not get group entry for 'nagios' on FreeBSD

Subhendu Ghosh sghosh at sghosh.org
Wed Jun 1 01:19:05 CEST 2005


Perhaps you can post the appropriate /etc/group entry.

On Tue, 31 May 2005 matt at mattbostock.com wrote:

> Anyone? Any help with this would be very much appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
> Matt
>
> Matt Bostock wrote:
>> *** I tried sending this to nagios-users but didn't get a response, I
>> figured maybe it's more suitable in the dev mailing list, hope that's ok.***
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to run Nagios inside a FreeBSD jail, but am getting this in
>> nagios.log:
>>
>> [1116603291] Nagios 2.0b3 starting... (PID=88484)
>> [1116603291] LOG VERSION: 2.0
>> [1116603336] Warning: Could not get group entry for 'nagios'
>> [1116603336] Warning: Could not set effective GID=-1
>> [1116603336] Failed to drop privileges.  Aborting.
>>
>> After that, Nagios exits. The nagios user and group are definetly set
>> up. Any suggestions would be very gratefully appreciated.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Matt :)
>>
>>
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