Newbie a little bit confused

[Greg Vickers]

Jochen,

Check your permissions on the files in /etc/nagios - make sure the user 
'nagios' has permission to read those files.

Something to consider in the future is that if you are going to have a lot 
of hosts/services etc, you may want to use the cfg_dir directive instead of 
the cfg_file directive. e.g:

/etc/nagios/objects/hosts
/etc/nagios/objects/hostgroups
/etc/nagios/objects/services
etc

and in the nagios.cfg:

cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/objects/hosts
cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/objects/hostgroups
cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/objects/services
etc

HTH,
Greg

At 04:50 AM 19/04/2004, Jochen Kaechelin wrote:

> > A question could be, what's wrong with your nagios.cfg file?
> >
> > Does it include:
> > cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg
> >
> > where
> > /usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg
> >
> > is the location of that hosts.cfg file
>
>Debain uses another structure:
>
>cfg_file=/etc/nagios/contactgroups.cfg
>cfg_file=/etc/nagios/contacts.cfg
>cfg_file=/etc/nagios/dependencies.cfg
>cfg_file=/etc/nagios/escalations.cfg
>cfg_file=/etc/nagios/hostgroups.cfg
>cfg_file=/etc/nagios/hosts.cfg
>cfg_file=/etc/nagios/services.cfg
>cfg_file=/etc/nagios/timeperiods.cfg
>
>Everything looks ok?
>
>--
>Jochen

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Greg Vickers
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Queensland University of Technology,
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Brisbane,
Australia

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