shoot not sure what is happening - cant start nagios (account unavailable)

Dale J. Chatham dale at chatham.org
Fri Jul 10 21:08:34 CEST 2009


Try this:

mkdir /var/spool/nagios

chown nagios:nagios /var/spool/nagios

It looks like the directory does not exist and since the init script 
runs nagios as user nagios, it can't create it.

  Dale


Natalie Aloi wrote:
> All I had a sample version (out of the box) of nagios running, I made 
> my config changes with my devices, etc, verified configuration...now 
> nagios won't start!  Here is my output any ideas?
>  
> [root at dns 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...
> Running pre-flight check on configuration data...
> Checking services...
>         Checked 81 services.
> Checking hosts...
>         Checked 19 hosts.
> Checking host groups...
>         Checked 3 host groups.
> Checking service groups...
>         Checked 0 service groups.
> Checking contacts...
>         Checked 3 contacts.
> Checking contact groups...
>         Checked 3 contact groups.
> Checking service escalations...
>         Checked 0 service escalations.
> Checking service dependencies...
>         Checked 0 service dependencies.
> Checking host escalations...
>         Checked 0 host escalations.
> Checking host dependencies...
>         Checked 0 host dependencies.
> Checking commands...
>         Checked 94 commands.
> Checking time periods...
>         Checked 5 time periods.
> Checking for circular paths between hosts...
> Checking for circular host and service dependencies...
> Checking global event handlers...
> Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
> Checking misc settings...
> Total Warnings: 0
> Total Errors:   0
> Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the 
> pre-flight check
> [root at dns bin]# exit
> exit
> [naloi at dns bin]$ sudo service nagios restart
> [sudo] password for root:
> Running configuration check...done.
> Stopping nagios: done.
> Starting nagios:su: warning: cannot change directory to 
> /var/spool/nagios: No such file or directory
> This account is currently not available.
>  done.
> [naloi at dns bin]$ su
> Password:
> [root at dns bin]# sudo service nagios start
> Starting nagios:su: warning: cannot change directory to 
> /var/spool/nagios: No such file or directory
> This account is currently not available.
>  done.
> [root at dns bin]# service nagios start
> Starting nagios:su: warning: cannot change directory to 
> /var/spool/nagios: No such file or directory
> This account is currently not available.
>  done.
> [root at dns bin]# cd /var/spool
> [root at dns spool]# ls -lat
> total 52
> drwxrwx---  2 smmsp  smmsp  4096 2009-07-10 05:00 clientmqueue
> drwxr-xr-x 13 root   root   4096 2009-07-08 13:52 .
> drwxrwxr-x  2 root   mail   4096 2009-07-07 04:10 mail
> drwx------  2 root   mail   4096 2009-07-07 04:10 mqueue
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 2009-06-30 15:00 anacron
> drwxr-xr-x 20 root   root   4096 2009-06-30 14:37 ..
> drwx--x---  3 root   lp     4096 2009-06-30 14:35 cups
> drwx------  3 daemon daemon 4096 2009-06-30 14:26 at
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 2008-12-12 13:02 repackage
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 2008-04-07 17:44 lpd
> drwxr-x---  2 squid  squid  4096 2008-04-03 07:30 squid
> drwxrwxrwt  2 root   root   4096 2008-03-03 12:51 vbox
> drwx------  2 root   root   4096 2008-02-12 10:18 cron
> [root at dns spool]# service httpd restart
> Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
> Starting 
> httpd:                                                            [  OK  ]
> [root at dns spool]# chkconfig --add nagios
> [root at dns spool]# chkconfig nagios on
> [root at dns spool]# service nagios start
> Starting nagios:su: warning: cannot change directory to 
> /var/spool/nagios: No such file or directory
> This account is currently not available.
>  done.
> [root at dns spool]#
> Network Operations Center Manager
> Experis Data Center LLC
> 8209 Valley Pike
> PO Box 535
> Middletown,VA 22645
> phone:540-869-8702
> cell:240-988-3267
> fax:540-869-8710
> e-mail:naloi at experisdatacenters.com
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