how does nagios locate config path?

[Michael Potter]

Answered my own question:
"you can configure Apache to pass an environment variable named
NAGIOS_CGI_CONFIG (which points to the correct location) to the CGIs."

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Mark Gius <mgius at createspace.com> wrote:

>  The main nagios configuration file is configurable in the init script.
> All other files are read based on the cfg_file and cfg_dir directives in
> that main nagios configuration file.  So you can either use the default
> nagios.cfg, which then points to things in /export/nagios, or edit the init
> script to also use a nagios.cfg in /export/nagios
>
> -Gius
>
> megamic at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I want to build and install Nagios under a certain path (eg /opt/local) but
> tell it to find it's configuration (nagios.cfg, cgi.cfg) elsewhere (eg
> /export/nagios). There is useful configure directive for the lockfile
> (--with-lockfile), is there something similar for configuration path?
> Ideally I don't want to install anything under /export/nagios as part of the
> installation procedure, another process will deploy the correct
> configuration there, I just want to set Nagios to look there when it runs.
>
> Cheers
>
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