Problem starting Nagios

[Morris, Patrick]

Hi John!

On Mon, 09 Nov 2009, John Oliver wrote:

> I installed Nagios from Dag Wieers' RPMForge site
> 
>     [joliver at mda-services4 ~]$ rpm -q nagios
>     nagios-3.2.0-1.el5.rf
> 
> 
> 
> When I try to start it:
> 
>     [joliver at mda-services4 ~]$ sudo /etc/init.d/nagios start
>     Starting nagios:CONFIG ERROR! Start aborted. Check your Nagios
> configuration.
> 
> 
> 
> But:
> 
>     [joliver at mda-services4 ~]$ ls -la /var/log/nagios/
>     total 24
>     drwxr-xr-x 3 nagios nagios 4096 Nov 9 12:49 .
>     drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Nov 9 12:49 ..
>     drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Aug 27 06:35 archives
> 
> 
> 
> And:
> 
>     [joliver at mda-services4 ~]$ sudo /usr/bin/nagios -v
> /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
> 
[snip] 
>     Total Warnings: 0
>     Total Errors: 0
> 
>     Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the
> pre-flight check
> 
> 
> 
> So, how do I find what it's unhappy about, with no logs and a manual
> check that indicates no problems?

It seems likely to me that either:

a) The config you're checking and the one the init script is telling
Nagios to load are not the same thing, 

or

b) The Nagios you're running, and the one the init script is running,
are not the same thing.

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