SOLVED: nagios looses state on restart

[Klavs Klavsen]

Hi Marc,

THANK YOU VERY MUCH :)

creating /var/nagios and chowning it to the nagios user worked - I had
missed that directory when moving the installation :(

On Fri, November 16, 2007 11:16, Marc Powell said:
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Klavs
> Klavsen
> Sent: Fri 11/16/2007 2:50 AM
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios looses state on restart
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Nagios for a long time, and we have approx. a 1000 checks.
>
> I've just moved the installation to a new machine, and now when I restart
> nagios (on FreeBSD 6.2) it looses state - all checks go to grey "service
> not checked yet.."
>
>
>
> Make sure retention is enabled in nagios.cfg and in your host/service
> templates/definitions. Make sure that the user nagios runs as has write
> permissions to the directory/retention files specified in nagios.cfg. Look
> for errors in nagios.log.
>
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