nagios.cmd not found

[Jim Mozley]

prabhu.anandh at wipro.com wrote:

> Hi Jim,
> When I try to open the file while the nagios is running ,the system
> hangs.then I have to kill the process and restart it again.it is a kind
> of file which automatically gets deleted if we stop running nagios.what
> is the remedy for this problem.
> I am looking forward for your reply.

Its not a normal file, its a named pipe. You shouldn't open the file, 
its intended as a means of passing commands into Nagios. For instance 
the CGIs use it to do things like disable/enable notifications.

JIM


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