Issues with nagios 2.0

[Andreas Ericsson]

Luca Corti wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've installed nagios from cvs HEAD and have a few issues.
> 
> I'm on Debian woody. Nagios is compiled with standard options. 
> 
> I've installed nagios in /usr/local/nagios, user and group is 'nagios',
> user for CGI commands is 'nagios', i've put the apache user (www-data)
> in the nagios group. Apache is configured as shown in the nagios
> documentation.
> 
> The configuration seems to be valid when checked with nagios -v. THe
> logfile displays no errors.
> 
> I've successfully started nagios one time, and both daemon and interface
> seemed to work fine.
> 
> 
> Issues:
> 
> 1) When stopping the daemon from init.d three nagios processes remain
> running. If I reissue /etc/init.d/nagios stop it it complains about the
> missing lockfile, but some nagios processes are still there.
> 

Those are the worker threads that are running in detached state. Sit 
back and wait for 15 seconds or so.

I've rewritten that init-script to take things like that into account, 
but it isn't yet general enough for public scrutiny.

> 2) After having killed the stale processes I've tried to restart nagios.
> The daemon starts but the CGIs are not available and display:
> 
> 
> Warning: Could not read program status information!
> 
> 
> I've noticed that no status.dat file is created in the var/ directory.
> I've checked for permissions on the files and directories.
> 
> /usr/local/nagios# ls -l
> total 6
> drwxrwsr-x    2 nagios   nagios        128 Dec 28 18:34 bin
> drwxrwsr-x    2 nagios   nagios        720 Dec 29 10:06 etc
> drwxr-sr-x    2 nagios   nagios        128 Dec 28 20:42 eventhandlers
> drwxr-sr-x    2 root     nagios       1968 Dec 28 18:42 libexec
> drwxrwsr-x    2 nagios   nagios        584 Dec 28 18:45 sbin
> drwxrwsr-x    9 nagios   nagios        392 Dec 28 18:44 share
> drwxrwsr-x    4 nagios   nagios        288 Dec 29 10:07 var
> 
> /usr/local/nagios/var# l -l
> total 277
> drwxrwsr-x    2 nagios   nagios         48 Dec 28 18:34 archives
> -rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios        240 Dec 28 18:46 comments.dat
> -rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios        241 Dec 28 18:46 downtime.dat
> -rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios          6 Dec 29 10:07 nagios.lock
> -rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       1064 Dec 29 10:07 nagios.log
> -rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios     264790 Dec 29 10:07 objects.cache
> -rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios          0 Dec 29 10:07 retention.dat
> drwxrwsr-x    2 nagios   nagios         80 Dec 29 10:07 rw
> 
> /usr/local/nagios/var/rw# ls -l
> total 0
> prw-rw----    1 nagios   nagios          0 Dec 29 10:07 nagios.cmd
> 
> 
> I'm really out of ideas.
> 

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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