Nagios 3.0.6 on 10.5.6 Server

[Randall R. Saeks]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Call [mailto:jcall at verio.net] 
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:25 PM
To: Randall R. Saeks; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.6 on 10.5.6 Server

> 
> Ever since I upgraded my server running Nagios 3.0.6 to 10.5.6, I
> can't get Nagios to launch.  When I try to start it via the CLI
> command, the following gets returned in the nagios.log:
> 
> [1232136591] Nagios 3.0.6 starting... (PID=27107)
> [1232136591] Local time is Fri Jan 16 14:09:51 CST 2009
> [1232136591] LOG VERSION: 2.0
> [1232136591] Finished daemonizing... (New PID=27109)
> [1232136591] Error: Could not create external command file
'/opt/local/
> var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd' as named pipe: (22) -> Invalid argument.  If
> this file already exists and you are sure that another copy of Nagios
> is not running, you should delete this file.
> [1232136591] Bailing out due to errors encountered while trying to
> initialize the external command file... (PID=27109)
> 
> I've deleted said file, but no such luck in getting it to run.
> 
> While the web-interface is there and running, if I go to tactical
> overview or any of the other menus say that Nagios isn't running
> (which makes sense since the app bails).
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on this and something to check out / try?
> I have installed this through Macports.
> 

Is it me or do you have a space in that file path?

'/opt/local/ var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd'

Looks like a typo in your nagios.cfg file.

Nope, sorry about that.  It looks like wrapping in the email make that go to
the next line.  My nagios.cfg has it all in one line, no spaces.

Randy



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