newbie questions v. 2.0

[Jeff Sullivan]

javier rojas wrote:
> hostname:/usr/local/nagios # bin/nagios -v etc/nagios.cfg
> 
> Nagios 2.6
> Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
> Last Modified: 11-27-2006
> License: GPL
> 
> Reading configuration data...
> 
> Error: Could not add object property in file
> '/usr/local/nagios//etc/hosts.cfg' on line 6.

> here the hosts.cfg file, in case theres something wrong with it...
> 
> define host{
>         host_name                       testserver
>         alias                           test server windows
>         address                         172.18.17.96
>         parents

Guessing that Line 1 is a blank line, I would say that it is because 
"parents" is being declared but not defined. Parents is optional for 
setting up layering of you networks.  Remove or comment out the parents 
line an give 'er a go again.

Jeff

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