Debian b0rkage ???

[Jamie Baddeley]

why don't you run nag1.2 from backports.org on stable?

It seems to me that your cfg files are what's wrong. Is there actually
some sane definitions in services.cfg etc?

good luck.

jamie

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 09:10, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> I am running Debian, mostly testing and some unstable.  I installed
> nagios from testing, and most of it was working.  I was having problems
> with status, as documented here:
> 
>     <http://wiki.tryphon.org/LinuxWiki/NagiosInstall>
> 
> Those patches appeared to resolve the problem.  I remain confused why
> Debian does not show a bug against this:
> 
>     <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=nagios-mysql>
> 
> I was going to write the maintainer, when I noticed that unstable has a
> newer version:
> 
> 	# apt-cache policy nagios-mysql
> 	nagios-mysql:
> 	  Installed: 2:1.2-3.1
> 	  Candidate: 2:1.2-3.1
> 	  Version Table:
> 	 *** 2:1.2-3.1 0
> 	        500 http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu unstable/main Packages
> 	        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 	     2:1.1-11 0
> 	        990 http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu testing/main Packages
> 	     2:1.0-4.bunk 0
> 	        500 http://www.fs.tum.de woody/bunk-1/main Packages
> 
> So, I upgraded to that version, which resulted in the five (5) crucial
> definition errors documented below.  I _purged_ the entire package, and
> installed unstable from scratch -- same problem:
> 
> 	# sudo /usr/sbin/nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
> 	Nagios 1.2
> 	Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
> 	Last Modified: 02-02-2004
> 	License: GPL
> 
> 	Reading configuration data...
> 
> 	Running pre-flight check on configuration data...
> 
> 	Checking services...
> 	Error: There are no services defined!
> 	        Checked 0 services.
> 	Checking hosts...
> 	Error: There are no hosts defined!
> 	        Checked 0 hosts.
> 	Checking host groups...
> 	Error: There are no host groups defined!
> 	        Checked 0 host groups.
> 	Checking contacts...
> 	Error: There are no contacts defined!
> 	        Checked 0 contacts.
> 	Checking contact groups...
> 	Error: There are no contact groups defined!
> 
> 	        Checked 0 contact groups.
> 	Checking service escalations...
> 	        Checked 0 service escalations.
> 	Checking host group escalations...
> 	        Checked 0 host group escalations.
> 	Checking service dependencies...
> 	        Checked 0 service dependencies.
> 	Checking host escalations...
> 	        Checked 0 host escalations.
> 	Checking host dependencies...
> 	        Checked 0 host dependencies.
> 	Checking commands...
> 	        Checked 0 commands.
> 	Checking time periods...
> 	        Checked 0 time periods.
> 	Checking for circular paths between hosts...
> 	Checking for circular service execution dependencies...
> 	Checking global event handlers...
> 	Checking obsessive compulsive service processor command...
> 	Checking misc settings...
> 
> 	Total Warnings: 0
> 	Total Errors:   5
> 
> 
> Here is my main configuration:
> 
> 	# grep -v '^\(#\|$\)' nagios.cfg 
> 	log_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.log
> 	cfg_file=/etc/nagios/checkcommands.cfg
> 	cfg_file=/etc/nagios/misccommands.cfg
> 	cfg_file=/etc/nagios/contactgroups.cfg
> 	cfg_file=/etc/nagios/contacts.cfg
> 	cfg_file=/etc/nagios/dependencies.cfg
> 	cfg_file=/etc/nagios/escalations.cfg
> 	cfg_file=/etc/nagios/hostgroups.cfg
> 	cfg_file=/etc/nagios/hosts.cfg
> 	cfg_file=/etc/nagios/services.cfg
> 	cfg_file=/etc/nagios/timeperiods.cfg
> 	resource_file=/etc/nagios/resource.cfg
> 	status_file=/var/log/nagios/status.log
> 	nagios_user=nagios
> 	nagios_group=nagios
> 	check_external_commands=1
> 	command_check_interval=-1
> 	command_file=/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
> 	comment_file=/var/log/nagios/comment.log
> 	downtime_file=/var/log/nagios/downtime.log
> 	lock_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.lock
> 	temp_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.tmp
> 	log_rotation_method=d
> 	log_archive_path=/var/log/nagios/archives
> 	use_syslog=1
> 	log_notifications=1
> 	log_service_retries=1
> 	log_host_retries=1
> 	log_event_handlers=1
> 	log_initial_states=0
> 	log_external_commands=1
> 	log_passive_service_checks=1
> 	inter_check_delay_method=s
> 	service_interleave_factor=s
> 	max_concurrent_checks=0
> 	service_reaper_frequency=10
> 	sleep_time=1
> 	service_check_timeout=60
> 	host_check_timeout=30
> 	event_handler_timeout=30
> 	notification_timeout=30
> 	ocsp_timeout=5
> 	perfdata_timeout=5
> 	retain_state_information=1
> 	state_retention_file=/var/log/nagios/status.sav
> 	retention_update_interval=60
> 	use_retained_program_state=0
> 	interval_length=60
> 	use_agressive_host_checking=0
> 	execute_service_checks=1
> 	accept_passive_service_checks=1
> 	enable_notifications=1
> 	enable_event_handlers=1
> 	process_performance_data=0
> 	obsess_over_services=0
> 	check_for_orphaned_services=0
> 	check_service_freshness=1
> 	freshness_check_interval=60
> 	aggregate_status_updates=1
> 	status_update_interval=15
> 	enable_flap_detection=0
> 	low_service_flap_threshold=5.0
> 	high_service_flap_threshold=20.0
> 	low_host_flap_threshold=5.0
> 	high_host_flap_threshold=20.0
> 	date_format=us
> 	illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*|'"<>?,()=
> 	illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$&|'"<>
> 	admin_email=nagios
> 	admin_pager=pagenagios
> 
> 
> I made certain that the configuration files were the same between
> testing and unstable.  Here is a file listing:
> 
> 	# ls -al /etc/nagios/
> 	total 152
> 	drwxr-xr-x    4 nagios   www-data     4096 Jun  9 15:32 .
> 	drwxr-xr-x  122 root     root         8192 Jun  9 14:56 ..
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       1139 Mar 27 03:37 apache.conf
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios      17835 Jun  9 15:32 cgi.cfg
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       4427 Mar 27 03:37 checkcommands.cfg
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios        681 Mar 27 03:37 command.cfg
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       2031 Jun  9 01:14 contactgroups.cfg
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       1894 Jun  9 01:20 contacts.cfg
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       1662 Mar 27 03:37 dependencies.cfg
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       2256 Mar 27 03:37 escalations.cfg
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       2245 Jun  9 01:15 hostgroups.cfg
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       7231 Jun  9 00:57 hosts.cfg
> 	-rw-r-----    1 nagios   www-data       44 Jun  9 15:21 htpasswd.users
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       4250 Mar 27 03:37 misccommands.cfg
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios      21163 Jun  9 14:37 nagios.cfg
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       3365 Jun  8 08:55 resource.cfg
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios      21643 Jun  9 14:17 services.cfg
> 	drwxr-xr-x    2 nagios   nagios       4096 Jun  9 14:36 stylesheets
> 	-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       1589 Mar 27 03:37 timeperiods.cfg
> 	drwxr-xr-x    2 nagios   nagios       4096 Jun  9 15:07 tmp
> 
> 
> Where do I go from here?  What am I missing?
> 
> What do you think?
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