Nagios 2.0b4 restart issue

[Radkon]

Nice! That was it, just chown nagios.nagios /etc/nagios/resources.cfg like
you said and it works now. Just to make it clear I wasn't using the nagios
script for restarts but just doing 'kill -1'.

Thanks a lot for the help,


On 11/29/05, Arno Lehmann <al at its-lehmann.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On 29.11.2005 01:46, Radkon wrote:
>
> > I just got to playing with 2.0b4 and the first thing I ran into was the
> 127
> > error, the resources.cfg file by default was pointing to:
> > $USER1$=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins
> >
> > but the plugins install into: $USER1$=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/
> >
> > Not a big deal it works now, the problem is when I restart the nagios
> > process all the plugins fail again, in order to keep it running I have
> to
> > kill -9 the process and then restart it.
> >
> > Here is a log message from after the restart: nagios:
> > Warning: Return code of 127 for check of service 'Root / Free Space' on
> host
> > 'host.network.com' was out of bounds. Make sure the plugin you're trying
> to
> > run actually exists.
> >
> > The system is Fedora Core 4, with nagios 2.0b4.
>
> I've experienced this problem, too.
> Here, it was a permissions issue. The file with the "private" macros was
> 0600 root:root, but should have been 0600 nagios:nagios. I assume that
> nagios reads this file as root at startup, but at a reload it's running
> as user nagios... The solution was, obviously, a simple chown nagios.
> /etc/nagios/resource.cfg for me.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Arno
>
> > This was the only way to see if anyone else was seeing this so I
> apologize
> > if this isnt the right place to send to.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
>
> --
> IT-Service Lehmann                    al at its-lehmann.de
> Arno Lehmann                  http://www.its-lehmann.de
>
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