New to Nagios - Need help with nagios.cfg

[Hau Phan]

What's the first line in your commands.cfg?

Eric Chatham wrote:
> [root@ ~ bin]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
>
> Nagios 3.0.6
> Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
> Last Modified: 12-01-2008
> License: GPL
>
> Reading configuration data...
>
> Error: Unexpected token or statement in file '/opt/nagios/etc/main/commands.cfg' on line 1.
>
> ***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files...
>
>      Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
>      directives and data defintions.  If you are upgrading from a previous
>      version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
>      may have been removed or modified in this version.  Make sure to read
>      the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
>      'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.
>
> Eric Chatham
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 16:38
> To: Nagios Users
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] New to Nagios - Need help with nagios.cfg
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Eric Chatham wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm very new to Nagios.  I'm running version Nagios 3.0.6 on CentOS
>> RHEL 5.1. I used the FC6 instructions for my installation.  I've
>> successfully installed the program per the Quick-start guide
>> provided on the Website.  We presently have another server with an
>> older version of Nagios installed.  It's using "cfg_dir=/opt/nagios/
>> etc" as its location for all *.cfg giles.
>>
>> Here's a problem: When I try to create an alternate directory
>> (cfg_dir) in the nagios config file, I keep getting a CONFIG ERROR
>> when I try to restart the service. I would like to use "cfg_dir=/opt/
>> nagios/etc/main" to hold all the config files. Here is a list of
>> that directory right now:
>>
>> [root@ ~ main]# ls -l
>> total 68
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios  7714 Feb 13 16:55 commands.cfg
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios  2166 Feb 13 16:52 contacts.cfg
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios   240 Feb 13 14:28 hostgroups.cfg
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios   163 Feb 13 16:51 hosts.cfg
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios  2414 Feb 13 16:39 services.cfg
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios 10812 Feb 13 16:41 templates.cfg
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagios  3209 Feb 13 16:55 timeperiods.cfg
>> [root@ ~ main]# service nagios restart
>> Running configuration check... CONFIG ERROR!  Restart aborted.
>> Check your Nagios configuration.
>>     
>
> Seems like one of the config files probably has an error in it. Run '/
> path/to/nagios -v /path/to/nagios.cfg'.
>
> --
> Marc
>
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