No PID appearing in nagios when starting

[Rob Moss]

Nelson Serafica wrote:

>---------------------------------------------------
>In nagios.log
>
>[1129910072] Nagios 1.2 starting... (PID=6812)
>[1129910072] Finished daemonizing... (New PID=6813)
>[1129910072] Error: Could not create external command
>file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' as named
>pipe: (2) -> No su                      ch file or
>directory.  If this file already exists and you are
>sure that another copy of Nagios is not running, you
>should d                      elete this file.
>[1129910072] Bailing out due to errors encountered
>while trying to open the external command file for
>reading... (PID=6813)
>
>No file existing with this file
>(/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd).
>
>Hope you can help me
>  
>

It looks like your nagios.cmd file is either missing, or in a different 
location to what the nagios.cfg file says.  This is important for 
sending commands back and forth between the nagios server and nagios CGI 
pages.

nagios.cfg thinks that the nagios.cmd file lives in

/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

You need to either create the file.. follow the instructions here

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/commandfile.html


More info:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/configmain.html#command_file

Cheeers
rob.



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