Figured it out. Nagios needs to write to /var/tmp/nagios/status.sav but the permissions were not right. There was no error message to indicate this. __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <td>Ranga Nathan <RNathan@baxglobal.com> Sent by: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net 09/14/2004 10:34 AM <td> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net cc: Subject: [Nagios-users] NAGIOS CRITICAL - could not find status log: /var/log/nagios/status.log</table> I have Nagios running successfully on one box and I cloned it on another. The second box has problems. When Nagios starts up, I see the log like below and the CGIs do not show the status info. The status.log file is not being created. I checked permissions, nagios.cfg etc. and everything seems OK. Can someone give me a handle? I checked the config with the -v and it reported only warnings, none of which is related to this. Thanks for the help. ....... scrolled off.... +++ /sbin/consoletype ++ '[' en_US = ja_JP.eucJP -a pty '!=' pty ']' +++ /sbin/consoletype ++ '[' en_US = ko_KR.eucKR -a pty '!=' pty ']' +++ /sbin/consoletype ++ '[' en_US = zh_CN.GB2312 -a pty '!=' pty ']' +++ /sbin/consoletype ++ '[' en_US = zh_TW.Big5 -a pty '!=' pty ']' ++ export LANG ++ '[' -z '' ']' ++ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/init ']' ++ . /etc/sysconfig/init +++ BOOTUP=color +++ RES_COL=60 +++ MOVE_TO_COL=echo -en \033[60G +++ SETCOLOR_SUCCESS=echo -en \033[1;32m +++ SETCOLOR_FAILURE=echo -en \033[1;31m +++ SETCOLOR_WARNING=echo -en \033[1;33m +++ SETCOLOR_NORMAL=echo -en \033[0;39m +++ LOGLEVEL=3 +++ PROMPT=yes ++ '[' -x /sbin/consoletype ']' +++ consoletype ++ '[' pty = serial ']' ++ '[' color '!=' verbose ']' ++ INITLOG_ARGS=-q + prefix=/usr + exec_prefix=/usr + NagiosBin=/usr/bin/nagios + NagiosCfg=/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg + NagiosLog=/var/log/nagios/status.log + NagiosTmp=/var/log/nagios/nagios.tmp + NagiosSav=/var/log/nagios/status.sav + NagiosCmd=/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd + NagiosVar=/var/log/nagios + NagiosRun=/var/run/nagios.pid + NagiosLckDir=/var/lock/subsys + NagiosLckFile=nagios + NagiosCGI=/usr/lib/nagios/cgi + Nagios=nagios + test -f /usr/bin/nagios + test -f /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg + echo 'Starting network monitor: nagios' Starting network monitor: nagios + su -l nagios -c 'touch /var/log/nagios/nagios.log /var/log/nagios/status.sav' + rm -f /var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd + /usr/bin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg + '[' -d /var/lock/subsys ']' + touch /var/lock/subsys/nagios + sleep 1 + status_nagios nagios + test '!' -f /var/run/nagios.pid ++ head -n 1 /var/run/nagios.pid + NagiosPID=10646 + test -x /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/daemonchk.cgi + /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/daemonchk.cgi -l /var/run/nagios.pid NAGIOS CRITICAL - could not find status log: /var/log/nagios/status.log + return 1 __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840