help with cfg's

[nettech at kmts.ca]

Hi,
Yeah i am not sure why it was saying that either, as I do have nagios
installed in the default path
eg: /usr/local/nagios....

Don



> ----Original Message----
> From: Don {KMTS}.Net Support [mailto:nettech at kmts.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:05 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] help with cfg's
>
>> Actually when I try to run it I get this error:
>>
>>
>> [root at localhost root]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios nagios.cfg
>>
>> Nagios 1.2
>> Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org) Last
>> Modified: 02-02-2004
>> License: GPL
>>
>> Error: Cannot open main configuration file '/root/nagios.cfg' for
>> reading!
>> Nagios 1.2 starting... (PID=4329)
>> Bailing out due to one or more errors encountered in the
>> configuration files.  Run Nagios from the command line with the -v
>> option to verify your config before restarting. (PID=4329)
>> [root at localhost root]#
>>
>> I have looked at the nagios.cfg file (it is in the appropriate
>> folder) and I dont see why it is not starting.
>> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> /root (as indicated above) is certainly not the appropriate directory
> for that file. It should be in /usr/local/nagios/etc. The proper way to
> start nagios is '/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg' or use the init script. You should,
> however, run '/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg' to verify your configuration first
> before attempting to daemonize it.
>
> --
> Marc
>




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