Problem with resource.cfg macro definiton

[Gotner, James]

Both me and 'nagios' are using /bin/bash according to /etc/passwd.  

James Gotner

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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Whitney [mailto:swhitney at journyx.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:16 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with resource.cfg macro definiton


James,
This truly sounds like a shell-based issue.  Are you sure the NAGIOS user is
using the proper shell?  You might source your entire profile to that user
if it looks like things are ok for you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gotner, James" <jgotner at fhcrc.org>
To: "'Scott Whitney'" <swhitney at journyx.com>;
<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Problem with resource.cfg macro definiton


Well, it seems that the problem wasnt permissions related, it just seems
that Nagios checks the cfg files in a random order, which gave me the
impression that changing permissions corrected my problem...  I'll give a
little background on my setup...

RedHat 7.3 (2 seperate boxes)
I am using bash (tried running nagios -v from /bin/sh and still got the same
thing)
I am writing all config files using vim (tried with other editors also -
kate, vi)
I have Nagios 1.0 on one, and 1.0b6 on the other for testing purposes

ALL cfg files seem to exhibit this problem now with anything that isnt a
comment under both versions.  I even started to recreate a file without
comments, and I still get the error about an unexpected token or statement.
I have opened the files with a couple of editors to see if there was
anything that vim wasnt displaying, and still saw nothing.  I transfered the
files to a samba share and pulled them back down to have them rewritten
incase the files were corrupted, and that hasnt worked.  Is there a better
distro to use Nagios with, as the only thing I see in common is RH 7.3?  Are
there any suggestions on things to try?

James Gotner

Security Certified Network Professional
A+ Hardware/Software, Linux+, Network+, i-Net+ Certified Professional
Certified Internet Webmaster Associate

Original Message:

Hello,

   I have installed nagios and associated plugins, and have come across a
problem that I cannot resolve through searching the archives, or anywhere in
the manual.  When running ./nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg, I
receive an error to the effect of 'Error: unexpected token or statement in
file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg'  on line 24.  Well, line 24
defines the $USER1$ macro which is defined as:
$USER1$=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins

I mv'd the resource.cfg-sample file to my config directory as resource.cfg,
and only changed the location of the plugin directory ($USER$1) within it.
Is there something that I am overlooking here?  Thanks for any help..

James Gotner

Security Certified Network Professional
A+ Hardware/Software, Linux+, Network+, i-Net+ Certified Professional
Certified Internet Webmaster Associate





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