<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Marco Ramos wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1135003252.3841.9.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 19:32 +0500, Askar Ali wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">however I still *sometime* (not every time) error when stopping nagios. /etc/rc.d/rc.nagios stop Stopping network monitor: nagios Waiting for nagios to exit .head: cannot open `/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock' for reading: No such file or directory </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Does this directory have read/write permissions for the user nagios? HTH, Marco Ramos </pre> </blockquote> yep, ls -l drwxr-xr-x 3 nagios nagios 328 2005-12-19 19:43 var and ls -l var rwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios 11528 2005-12-19 14:19 archives -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 240 2005-12-19 14:19 comments.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 241 2005-12-19 14:19 downtime.dat -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 6 2005-12-19 19:41 nagios.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 144777 2005-12-19 19:41 nagios.log -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 205500 2005-12-19 19:41 objects.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 310521 2005-12-19 19:41 retention.dat -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 295578 2005-12-19 19:43 status.dat however even though it gives error on stopping but its do kill the nagios process. regards askar </body> </html>