Startup errors

Volker.Aust at premiere.de Volker.Aust at premiere.de
Tue Oct 8 18:15:52 CEST 2002


And IIRC comments have to start in the first column (no whitespace before
the '#').

-vol

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:mpowell at ena.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 4:48 PM
> To: Seth Hollen; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Startup errors
> 
> 
> I don't know if it's the formatting of the email or not, but the line
> beginning with 'n other host definitions' looks to be the 
> problem. Looks
> like you've got some carriage return problems with your 
> config file. Try
> commenting out that line with a '#'.
> 
> Marc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Seth Hollen [mailto:seth at opentechinc.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 8:07 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Startup errors
> > 
> > I am new to nagios and have been following all directions I can find
> > especially the article in Onlamp.
> > 
> > If I do "/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v
> > /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg"
> > I get this:
> > 
> > Reading configuration data...
> > 
> > Error: Could not add object property in file
> > '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg' on line 3.
> > Here is my hosts.cfg file
> > 
> > -----------begin hosts.cfg-----------------------
> > # Generic host definition template
> > define host{
> >  # The name of this host template - referenced i
> >  name                            generic-host
> >  n other host definitions, used for template recursion/resolution
> >  # Host notifications are enabled
> >  notifications_enabled           1
> >  # Host event handler is enabled
> >  event_handler_enabled           1
> >  # Flap detection is enabled
> >  flap_detection_enabled          1
> >  # Process performance data
> >  process_perf_data               1
> >  # Retain status information across program restarts
> >  retain_status_information       1    # Retain non-status 
> information
> > across program restarts
> >  retain_nonstatus_information    1
> >  # DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL HOST,
> >  # JUST A TEMPLATE!
> >  register                        0
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > # Host Definition
> > 
> > define host{
> >  # Name of host template to use
> >  use                     generic-host
> > 
> >  host_name               nagios.lan
> >  alias                   nagios
> >  address                 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >  check_command           check-host-alive
> >  max_check_attempts      10
> >  notification_interval   120
> >  notification_period     24x7
> >  notification_options    d,u,r
> > }
> > ----------------end hosts.cfg-------------------
> > 
> > Could anyone point me in the right direction???
> > Thank you!
> > 
> > Take Care,
> > 
> > Seth Hollen
> > seth at opentechinc.net
> > 727-919-1598
> > 
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