quick installation guides / useradd (bug?)

[Bernd Arnold]

Hi!

I'm using the 8.04 Server Edition of Ubuntu and Nagios 3.0.1. I've set up Nagios as described in the installation guide, too.

The message 'Home directory doesn't exist... assuming "/"' came every time I've started Nagios. So the init script worked. There was only this annoying message.

Thanks for your hint with the -m switch. I stopped Nagios, ran "userdel nagios", "useradd -m nagios" and now, when starting Nagios, the message doesn't appear any longer. And Nagios still seems to work :-)

Regards
Bernd

> Hi *
> 
> Using Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop Edition I tried to install Nagios according to
> the quick installation guide. As some other people I wasn't able to start
> Nagios via the init script because the home directory wasn't created. Reading
> the man page I discovered that you have to use the "-m" option to have the
> directory created. SuSE seems to be affected, too. I assume that it also
> applies to Red Hat/Fedora but I have no access to such systems.
> 
> Wolfgang


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