check_nagios command not picking up nagios process

[Jason Lixfeld]

On Mar 4, 2004, at 2:12 PM, C. Bensend wrote:

>
>> That didn't work for me.  It would appear that check_nagios
>> (check_procs) is very picky about what it will match.  It will match
>> some commands, but it will  not match the same command with a varied
>> command line execution.  Dumb.  How can I fix this?
>>
>> su-2.05b# ps xa|grep nagios
>>   8519  ??  Ss     0:02.62 /usr/local/bin/nagios -d
>> /usr/local/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
>> 17485  p0  R+     0:00.00 grep nagios
>> su-2.05b# /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_nagios -F
>> /var/spool/nagios/status.log -e 5 -C "/usr/local/bin/nagios"
>> Could not locate a running Nagios process!
>
> Um.  Pardon me if this has already been answered, but is 'ps xa' the 
> exact
> ps command check_nagios is using?  I haven't followed this entire 
> thread,
> so this might have been covered.
>
> Check your config.h for the _exact_ ps command it's using, and then try
> that from the command line.  What's different about the output you're
> getting, and the output check_nagios is expecting?

I can't find anything in config.h about the correct ps command or 
syntax.

> Benny
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