help with cfg's

[nettech at kmts.ca]

Hi,
I am simply asking for help...yes my Linux/Unix knowledge is not as great
as most, but at some point you yourself started looking at a command line
and not knowing how to get to root
Don






> Because the configured user has no rights to the file?
>
> This isn't a nagios problem.  You need to learn more about
> unix/linux/whatever.
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:05:07PM -0500, Don {KMTS}.Net Support wrote:
>> 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
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