cannot make comments under nagios after server crash. nagios.cmd missing

[Kevin Keane]

Try restarting Nagios.

nagios.cmd is actually not a file, but a socket. It is very important, 
not just for comments, but for a lot of other things, too. It should get 
deleted when you stop nagios, and recreated when you start it. 
Apparently, when you restarted nagios "manually" somehow that step got 
bypassed.

Rahul Nabar wrote:
> I recently had a server crash. I recovered and restarted nagios
> manually but now I seem to have lost the ability to make comments on
> hosts. If I try I get the error message:
>
> Error: Could not stat() command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'!
> The external command file may be missing, Nagios may not be running,
> and/or Nagios may not be checking external commands.
> An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for processing.
>
>
> That file is indeed missing. Running a "locate nagios.cmd" though
> shows the file at that location so it must have been there before the
> crash.
>
> Do I need to restart something? What am I missing.
>
> The older comments are intact though. It is just that I cannot make
> new comments.
>
>   


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