Nagios fails on empty config file

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

this is a forward from the Debian BTS, http://bugs.debian.org/354007.

If Nagios 2 encounters an empty config file, it exits with "invalid
argument":

|Reading configuration data...
|
|Error: Cannot open config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/imap.cfg' for
|reading: Invalid argument
|
|***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files...
|
|      Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
|      directives and data defintions.  If you are upgrading from a previous
|      version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
|      may have been removed or modified in this version.  Make sure to read
|      the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
|      'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.
|
|* errors in config!
|  failed!
|invoke-rc.d: initscript nagios2, action "start" failed.
|root at debian:/etc/nagios-plugins/config#

This has been verified to be still present in nagios 2.5.

Greetings
Marc

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