1.1 Install problems

[Lewis Shobbrook]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the response!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Pounsett [mailto:matt.pounsett at cira.ca] 
> Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2003 00:29
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] 1.1 Install problems
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Lewis Shobbrook wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I've recently installed nagios 1.1 on  a debian system running the 
> > latest unstable release.  I'm unable to start the seervice 
> from inet.d 
> > Starting network monitor: nagios
> > su: invalid option -- l
> 
> The default init script runs this command just before starting nagios:
> 
> su -l $Nagios -c "touch $NagiosVar/nagios.log $NagiosSav"
> 
> notice the -l as the first argument?  Your su apparently 
> doesn't want or need the -l to specify the login to su to.  
> According to the usage information su is giving you, it seems 
> you'd be okay simply changing that line to:
> 
> su $Nagios -c "touch $NagiosVar/nagios.log $NagiosSav"

That did the trick!

> 
> HTH
> 
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Cheers,

Lewis


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