shoot not sure what is happening - cant start nagios (account unavailable)
Dale J. Chatham
dale at chatham.org
Fri Jul 10 21:56:41 CEST 2009
Interesting, I think nagios has /sbin/nologin on mine. WEll, as long as
you're up and running, ...
Natalie Aloi wrote:
> not really sure what happened here...I tried your suggestion but still
> same results, once I edited the etc/passwd file and gave nagios a
> valid shell I could stop & start the service successfully.
>
> [root at dns /]# vi /etc/passwd
> [root at dns /]# service nagios restart
> Running configuration check...done.
> Stopping nagios: ....done.
> Starting nagios: done.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Dale J. Chatham [mailto:dale at chatham.org]
> *Sent:* Friday, July 10, 2009 03:08 PM
> *To:* 'Natalie Aloi'
> *Cc:* 'Nagios Users Mail-list'
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] shoot not sure what is happening -
> cant start nagios (account unavailable)
>
> 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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