Problems Starting Nagios

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

On 6/13/2007 8:57 PM, Danilo Perdomo wrote:
>   Hi All!. Im having problems configuring Nagios 2.7, i have all the 
> .cfg files ready to get started but when i try to
> initialize the nagios process i get this error message: "*Error: Could 
> not create external command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'.
> as named pipe: (13) -> Permission denied.  If this file already exists 
> and you are sure that another copy of Nagios is not running, you should
> delete this file."*
> Any ideas? the nagios.cmd is supposed to be created automatically but 
> that isn´t happening.

Well, the simplest thing to do would be to make sure the command file 
can be created by Nagios :-)

This is usually a question of permissions: The Nagios user needs 
permission to write to the directory where the command file will be 
created. A simple chmod ... might be enough for you.

More information can be found in the fine manual, by the way. Also, 
depending on how you installed Nagios, there might be a make target to 
set up these permissions - the make output informs you of the possible 
operations, usually.

Arno

> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Danilo Perdomo
> www.inter.com.ve <http://www.inter.com.ve>
> 
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