help with cfg's

[Don {KMTS}.Net Support]

Actually when I try to run it I get this error:


[root at localhost root]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios nagios.cfg

Nagios 1.2
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
Last Modified: 02-02-2004
License: GPL

Error: Cannot open main configuration file '/root/nagios.cfg' for reading!
Nagios 1.2 starting... (PID=4329)
Bailing out due to one or more errors encountered in the configuration
files.  Run Nagios from the command line with the -v option to verify your
config before restarting. (PID=4329)
[root at localhost root]#

I have looked at the nagios.cfg file (it is in the appropriate folder) and I
dont see why it is not starting.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Don


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Rhett [mailto:jrhett at meer.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:53 PM
To: Don {KMTS}.Net Support
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] help with cfg's


Is nagios actually running?  Have you checked your process list?

If so, are the permissions on the nagios files correct?

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:19:24PM -0500, Don {KMTS}.Net Support wrote:
> Thank you for all the replies, I have done just that.  Is there a better
set
> of instructions on how to actually configure Nagios other than the Nagios
> site itself, I have gone through their "how to set the cfg's" faq, but I
am
> still gettin this error:
> Error: Could not read host and service status information
>
> Now it seems from the error this is a common problem with new
installs...but
> I am lost in how to adjust the cfg files etc...
> Any help on links or advice is greatly appreciated.
> Don
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cook, Garry [mailto:GWCOOK at mactec.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:23 PM
> To: Don {KMTS}.Net Support; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] help with cfg's
>
>
> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am new to this mailing group as I have just installed
> > Nagios and I am
> > having problems (if everything went fine I would be asking for help:).
> > What I installed Nagios on was Fedora 1, I compiled the files
> > instead of the
> > rpm's.  I followed the instructions on the "How-to" page
> > explicitly, my
> > questions is this:
> > Where should the cfg files that it installed as sample files
> > be copied to,
> > currently they are in my /usr/local/nagios/etc folder.  I
> > copied each file
> > name that had *.sample on the to just *.cfg and looked at each file
> > individually...maybe  am getting ahead of myself here...if
> > someone could
> > share with me where exactly the files should go, or to simply
> > leave them
> > where they are.
> > Thank you,
> > Don
>
> I thought that the sample configs were installed in
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/samples by default. At least they were with Nagios
> 1.2. Either way, the correct location for the cfg files is the path that
> you stated above, /usr/local/nagios/etc/, unless you install to a
> non-default location. Either way, they should be in
> <path_to>/nagios/etc/. Just make sure that you remove the -sample suffix
> from the filenames.
>
> Garry W. Cook, CCNA
> Network Infrastructure Manager
> MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
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