Testing the configuration

[Marc Powell]

On Dec 4, 2008, at 5:08 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

> separate test system, perhaps a virtual one).  Are those absolute  
> paths
> needed?  The doc gives examples showing absolute paths, and doesn't  
> talk
> about what a relative path would mean (but doesn't say it's forbidden,
> either).  Are relative paths allowed?  Can we predict what they'd be
> relative to?


Simple enough TAFO question. Answers appear to be no, yes and yes  
respectively but absolute paths eliminate much confusion --

editing ~nagios/etc/nagios.cfg to specify --

	cfg_file=etc/template.cfg

* Testing from ~nagios is successful --

nagios]$ bin/nagios -v etc/nagios.cfg

Nagios 2.7
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
Last Modified: 01-19-2007
License: GPL

Reading configuration data...
...
Total Warnings: 0
Total Errors:   0

Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre- 
flight check

* Testing from ~nagios/bin fails --

bin]$ ./nagios -v ../etc/nagios.cfg

Nagios 2.7
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
Last Modified: 01-19-2007
License: GPL

Reading configuration data...

Error: Cannot open config file 'etc/template.cfg' for reading: No such  
file or directory

***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config  
files...

* Editing ~nagios/etc/nagios.cfg to specify --

	cfg_file=../etc/template.cfg

results in successful test --

bin]$ ./nagios -v ../etc/nagios.cfg

Nagios 2.7
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
Last Modified: 01-19-2007
License: GPL

Reading configuration data...
...
Total Warnings: 0
Total Errors:   0

Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre- 
flight check


So it appears possible but the paths must be referenced from your  
current working directory (PWD). That's fine when launched manually  
since you can always cd to the correct directory to test from but when  
launched via script, care must be taken to ensure that PWD is correct.

--
Marc




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