Nagios Hanging at Startup/Init

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Robert S Galloway
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:14 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios Hanging at Startup/Init
> 
> Howdy everybody. I've been running Nagios on my CentOS 4.3 machine for
a
> while now, but recently (I can't say exactly when) the Nagios init has
> been hanging when the server boots. A "ps -wef | grep nagios" after
the
> server comes up shows the following processes running:
> 
> root      2435  1454  0 09:26 ?        00:00:00 initlog -q -c
> /etc/rc3.d/S99nagios start
> root      2436  2435  0 09:26 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh
> /etc/rc3.d/S99nagios start
> root      2440  2436  0 09:26 ?        00:00:00 su - nagios -c touch
> /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log /usr/local/nagios/var/retention.dat
> root      4251  4218  0 10:43 pts/1    00:00:00 grep nagios
> 
> I also noticed the following lines in the "messages" log when I last
> rebooted:
> 
> Jul 28 09:26:50 hoshi nagios: Starting network monitor: nagios
> Jul 28 09:26:50 hoshi su(pam_unix)[2440]: session opened for user
nagios
> by (uid=0)
> Jul 28 09:26:50 hoshi nagios: Do you want to choose a different one?
[n]

Google for the [error] message. Judging by the last log entry it looks
like you have done something with SELinux user accounts. See section 4.1
of 

http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:hxxeX2CxD_8J:www.lurking-grue.org/ge
ttingstarted_newselinuxHOWTO.html+%22Do+you+want+to+choose+a+different+o
ne%3F+%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a

--
Marc

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