Installing Nagios RPM

[Salman Usmani]

Thanks for the advice Jim, i will do that.

Salman


>From: Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com>
>To: Salman Usmani <ms_usmani at hotmail.com>
>CC: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Installing Nagios RPM
>Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:39:35 -0500
>
>On 1/4/06, Salman Usmani <ms_usmani at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > root at server151 [~]# service nagios stop
> > nagios: unrecognized service
>
>If it says it's unrecognized, it may have removed it anyway, even
>though part of the uninstall script failed. 'rpm -q nagios' to verify
>if it's there or not.
>
>The service command will only work for things that deposit the
>appropriate files in /etc/init.d/. Basically it usually only works if
>the program was installed via rpm, though that's more of a usage thing
>and not a rule.
>
>Not to be rude, but you should REALLY consider reading the RHEL docs
>for sysadmins if you're going to be running rhel. There's a vast
>difference between being able to build / configure software and being
>able to admin a system. Some of the "Best Practice" type docs would do
>you a world of good. It doesn't matter what distro you run, you need
>to learn the particulars of that distribution to be able to fully
>utilize it.
>
>
>--
>Jim Perrin
>System Architect - UIT
>Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center




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