Problems in starting nagios 1.2

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Shankara Narayanan
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:10 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Problems in starting nagios 1.2
> 
> 
> ># /etc/init.d/nagios start
> 
> >starting network monitor: nagios
> >NAGIOS CRITICAL - could not find status log:
/var/log/nagios/status.log
> 
> touch /var/log/nagios/status.log and
> chown nagios.nagios /var/log/nagios/status.log
> this should help you.

Actually, this might work initially, but I'll bet you'll have problems
when nagios rotates the status log. Better to determine the reason why
nagios isn't/can't create the log file on it's own to begin with.
Several possibilities --

- The nagios user doesn't have write permission to /var/log/nagios.
- You have an error in your config (run /path/to/nagios/bin/nagios -v
/path/to/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg)
- The path to status.log as defined in the init script is different than
the path to status.log as defined in nagios.cfg (status_file=...).

That's likely not a comprehensive list but it's a start.

--
Marc

 


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