Lockfile trouble, Nagios version 3.0.3

[Francois Joubert]

 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > Problem
 > > -------
 > > [1217937468] Cannot lock lockfile '/var/spool/nagios/nagios.lock':
 > > Invalid argument. Bailing out...

 > Just to cover the basics, is the Nagios user able to write to the 
directory '/var/spool/nagios'? Write to that file?
1. perms and ownership on /var/spool/nagios = 777, nagios:nagios
2. perms and ownership on /var/spool/nagios/rw = 777, nagios:www

 > On shutdown, Nagios will remove the file and will need write 
permissions to the directory to re-create it.
If I stop nagios, delete /var/spool/nagios/nagios.lock and re-attempt to 
start nagios as a daemon, it creates a zero byte-sized file, 
/var/spool/nagios/nagios.lock and "Bails out". There is then no nagios 
process running to shutdown and remove the file.

Francois



 



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