NAGIOS CRITICAL - could not find status log: /var/log/nagios/status.log

[Ranga Nathan]

Figured it out. Nagios needs to write to /var/tmp/nagios/status.sav but 
the permissions were not right.  There was no error message to indicate 
this. 
__________________________________________
Ranga Nathan / CSG
Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; 
BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California
Tel: 714-442-7591   Fax: 714-442-2840





Ranga Nathan <RNathan at baxglobal.com>

Sent by: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
09/14/2004 10:34 AM
 
        To:     nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
        cc: 
        Subject:        [Nagios-users] NAGIOS CRITICAL - could not find 
status log: /var/log/nagios/status.log



I have Nagios running successfully on one box and I cloned it on another. 
The second box has problems. When Nagios starts up, I see the log like 
below and the CGIs do not show the status info. The status.log file is not 
being created.  I checked permissions, nagios.cfg etc.  and everything 
seems OK. Can someone give me a handle?  I checked the config with the -v 
and it reported only warnings, none of which is related to this. Thanks 
for the help. 
....... scrolled off.... 

+++ /sbin/consoletype 
++ '[' en_US = ja_JP.eucJP -a pty '!=' pty ']' 
+++ /sbin/consoletype 
++ '[' en_US = ko_KR.eucKR -a pty '!=' pty ']' 
+++ /sbin/consoletype 
++ '[' en_US = zh_CN.GB2312 -a pty '!=' pty ']' 
+++ /sbin/consoletype 
++ '[' en_US = zh_TW.Big5 -a pty '!=' pty ']' 
++ export LANG 
++ '[' -z '' ']' 
++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/init ']' 
++ . /etc/sysconfig/init 
+++ BOOTUP=color 
+++ RES_COL=60 
+++ MOVE_TO_COL=echo -en \033[60G 
+++ SETCOLOR_SUCCESS=echo -en \033[1;32m 
+++ SETCOLOR_FAILURE=echo -en \033[1;31m 
+++ SETCOLOR_WARNING=echo -en \033[1;33m 
+++ SETCOLOR_NORMAL=echo -en \033[0;39m 
+++ LOGLEVEL=3 
+++ PROMPT=yes 
++ '[' -x /sbin/consoletype ']' 
+++ consoletype 
++ '[' pty = serial ']' 
++ '[' color '!=' verbose ']' 
++ INITLOG_ARGS=-q 
+ prefix=/usr 
+ exec_prefix=/usr 
+ NagiosBin=/usr/bin/nagios 
+ NagiosCfg=/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg 
+ NagiosLog=/var/log/nagios/status.log 
+ NagiosTmp=/var/log/nagios/nagios.tmp 
+ NagiosSav=/var/log/nagios/status.sav 
+ NagiosCmd=/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd 
+ NagiosVar=/var/log/nagios 
+ NagiosRun=/var/run/nagios.pid 
+ NagiosLckDir=/var/lock/subsys 
+ NagiosLckFile=nagios 
+ NagiosCGI=/usr/lib/nagios/cgi 
+ Nagios=nagios 
+ test -f /usr/bin/nagios 
+ test -f /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg 
+ echo 'Starting network monitor: nagios' 
Starting network monitor: nagios 
+ su -l nagios -c 'touch /var/log/nagios/nagios.log 
/var/log/nagios/status.sav' 
+ rm -f /var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd 
+ /usr/bin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg 
+ '[' -d /var/lock/subsys ']' 
+ touch /var/lock/subsys/nagios 
+ sleep 1 
+ status_nagios nagios 
+ test '!' -f /var/run/nagios.pid 
++ head -n 1 /var/run/nagios.pid 
+ NagiosPID=10646 
+ test -x /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/daemonchk.cgi 
+ /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/daemonchk.cgi -l /var/run/nagios.pid 
NAGIOS CRITICAL - could not find status log: /var/log/nagios/status.log 
+ return 1 
__________________________________________
Ranga Nathan / CSG
Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; 
BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California
Tel: 714-442-7591   Fax: 714-442-2840
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