Nagios compatibility

[Kevin Keane]

You are looking at two completely separate issues. chkconfig doesn't 
have much to do with nagios; it is a Redhat specific file.

chkconfig doesn't care about nagios.cfg. It will install any 
service/daemon. What it is looking for is a shell script in, I believe, 
/etc/init.d. This shell script must accept the arguments "start" and 
"stop" (and should also accept a few other ones). So what the error 
message is telling you is "there is no shell script /etc/init.d/nagios".

This shell script - you probably need to write it yourself - is 
responsible for actually starting nagios. It is also a Redhat-specific 
one. On SUSE, the shell script will look similar but be subtly different.

Nagios won't work until you get this running, so it is not really 
surprising that you can't log in right now.

My recommendation: throw out the nagios you did (just keep the files in 
the /usr/local/nagios/etc directory), and instead find nagios as an 
already-compiled RPM. There really is very little reason to ever run 
your own compiled software except to learn. On a production server, it 
is outright dangerous to do so because you won't get any software updates.

Khairuzzamri wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm a newbie on linux and nagios. Need your help on this.
> I'm using Redhat 9 and have installed Nagios 3.0.3., step by step 
> according to Nagios 3.0 Jumpstart guide for linux 
> (www.thegeekstuff.com <http://www.thegeekstuff.com>).
> Installation run smoothly, but I cannot add the nagios to the startup 
> routine:
> [root at localhost]# chkconfig –add nagios
> [root at localhost]# chkconfig nagios on
> Both give 'error reading information on service nagios: No such file 
> or directory'.
> But when I verify the nagios configuration files:
> [root at localhost]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v 
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> It stated 'No warning & no errors'.
> 1 more thing if I'm go to the nagios page, even I'm providing the 
> correct username and password, it wont let me in.
> Am I missing something here, or is Nagios 3.0.3 is not compatible with 
> Redhat 9?
>
> Thanks & regards,
> Zamri,
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