Nagios Hanging at Startup/Init

[Robert S Galloway]

Marc,

Thanks for the pointer. I don't recall setting the SELinux to 
"permissive", but that is what it was set to. Maybe it was setup that 
way all along and one of the recent updates changed how it behaved.

Thanks again!

Robert

Marc Powell wrote:
>   
>> -----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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