Internal Server Error Occuring when trying to access Nagios on the browser

[Alex Dehaini]

Yep;

The importance of reading the docs, :)

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Dorfman, Justin <justin at mahalo.com> wrote:

> I would sugest that you check that you've created the nagios user and group
> as following the output of your command *ls -la /usr/local/nagios/var/
> *nagios should run under nagios user and nagios group.
>
>
> if you did edit your nagios.cfg
>  Code:
>
> vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
>
> and change the nagios_user and nagios_group to nagios
>  Code:
>
> nagios_user=nagios
> nagios_group=nagios
>
> save it and try to restart nagios again.
>
> via -
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/any-nagios-gurus-820989/page2.html#post4040536
>
>
> <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/any-nagios-gurus-820989/page2.html#post4040536>
> Regards,
>
> Justin Dorfman
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>
>   On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Ifeanyi Agu <ifepet2002 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>   Hello Alex,
>>
>> I have the changed the owner and group of the file to nagios but I still
>> get the same error in nagios.log file when I try to start nagios. I tried
>> this when logged in as the root user. I then logged in as nagios user and I
>> could not even start apache or nagios. It was telling me that service is not
>> a command it recognises. Please, please, please help me. Am running outta
>> time
>>
>> Ifeanyi Agu
>> 08063728802
>>
>> --- On *Wed, 25/8/10, Alex Dehaini <alexdehaini at gmail.com>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Alex Dehaini <alexdehaini at gmail.com>
>>
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Internal Server Error Occuring when trying to
>> access Nagios on the browser
>> To: "Nagios Users List" <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, 25 August, 2010, 5:48 PM
>>
>>
>> Permission issue - have nagios user and group own the file; heck the
>> entire directory, :)
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ifeanyi Agu <ifepet2002 at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=ifepet2002@yahoo.com>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>   Hello Jim,
>>
>> I used that command to test and there are 0 warnings and o errors. I also
>> checked my Nagios log and this is what I got
>>
>> [1282635168] Nagios 3.2.1 starting... (PID=4250)
>> [1282635168] Local time is Tue Aug 24 08:32:48 WAT 2010
>> [1282635168] LOG VERSION: 2.0
>> [1282635168] Warning: Could not open object cache file
>> '/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache' for writing!
>> [1282635168] Failed to obtain lock on file
>> /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock: Permission denied
>> [1282635168] Bailing out due to errors encountered while attempting to
>> daemonize... (PID=4250)
>>
>> Please do you know why am not able to write to the file?
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the support so far
>>
>>
>> Ifeanyi Agu
>> 08063728802
>>
>> --- On *Wed, 25/8/10, Jim Avery <jim at jimavery.me.uk<http://mc/compose?to=jim@jimavery.me.uk>
>> >* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Jim Avery <jim at jimavery.me.uk<http://mc/compose?to=jim@jimavery.me.uk>
>> >
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Internal Server Error Occuring when trying to
>> access Nagios on the browser
>> To: "Nagios Users List" <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net<http://mc/compose?to=nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> >
>> Date: Wednesday, 25 August, 2010, 5:29 PM
>>
>>
>> On 25 August 2010 14:55, Ifeanyi Agu <ifepet2002 at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=ifepet2002@yahoo.com>>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello Jim,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the help so far. I disabled SELinux and I tried starting
>> Nagios again but I noticed that Nagios was not running. I am logged in as
>> the root user in the Linux. Could that be the problem why my Nagios is not
>> running?
>>
>> I wouldn't have thought that would be the problem, no.
>>
>> Take a look at the nagios log file which is probably
>> /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log
>>
>> Don't forget my earlier recommendation to validate the Nagios config like
>> so:
>>
>> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
>>
>> Did you try that, and if so what did it say?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jim
>>
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