Problems Starting Nagios

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Danilo Perdomo
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3:59 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Problems Starting Nagios
> 
> I'm still getting an error, even though i have the permissions:
> 
> drwxrwxrwx  4 nagios nagios   4096 2007-06-13 16:17 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 nagios nagios   4096 2007-05-10 11:26 ..
> drwxrwxr-x  2 nagios nagios   4096 2007-05-10 11:24 archives
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios    238 2007-06-12 17:40 comments.dat
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios    239 2007-06-12 17:40 downtime.dat
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios      0 2007-06-13 16:17 nagios.lock
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 nagios nagios  14268 2007-06-13 16:56 nagios.log
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 nagios nagios 118664 2007-06-13 16:56 objects.cache
> -rw-------  1 nagios nagios 162982 2007-06-13 16:17 retention.dat
> drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagios   4096 2007-06-13 12:08 rw
> 
> root at server:/var/log# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> 
> Nagios 2.7
> Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
> Last Modified: 01-19-2007
> License: GPL
> 
> Warning: Could not get passwd entry for 'nagiosadmin'

Where is this coming from? Did you change 'nagios_user' in nagios.cfg
from the default of 'nagios'? That might explain why you don't have
permissions. What are the contents of the 'rw' directory?

--
Marc

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