Problem Starting Nagios 2.5

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

The entire nagios/var directory needs to be writeable by the user and 
group 'nagios' I believe.

eg. chown -R nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/var

Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
>
> Hi there –
>
> I just completed installing Nagios 2.5 and I am having problems 
> starting the application as either nagios or root users.
>
> The messages file in the /var/log directory has the following entry:
>
> I checked the permissions for the nagios.lock file, and they are as 
> follows:
>
> What changes do I need to make to correct this? Thanks.
>
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