<!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="mid1135002040.3841.1.camel@localhost.localdomain" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">What's the homedir of the user nagios? Is this the directory under which Nagios is installed? HTH, Marco Ramos On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 19:12 +0500, Askar Ali wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have installed nagios 2.0b6 on OS slackware, when I starts it, it gives error... (actaully migrated from one machine to another which were running 2.0b2) /etc/rc.d/rc.nagios start Starting network monitor: nagios No directory, logging in with HOME=/ however its working, secondly *sometime* when I stop nagios by /etc/rc.d/rc.nagios stop it gives error no nagios.lock file find and show me the long listing of Usage. I even replaced the init script of 2.0b6 with 2.0b2 but still the same error. any idea where i'm making some mistake? regards Askar Ali ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click">http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> 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 ERROR: List of process IDs must follow -p. ********* simple selection ********* ********* selection by list ********* -A all processes -C by command name -N negate selection -G by real group ID (supports names) -a all w/ tty except session leaders -U by real user ID (supports names) -d all except session leaders -g by session OR by effective group name -e all processes -p by process ID T all processes on this terminal -s processes in the sessions given a all w/ tty, including other users -t by tty g OBSOLETE -- DO NOT USE -u by effective user ID (supports names) r only running processes U processes for specified users x processes w/o controlling ttys t by tty . . any idea what i'm missing here? regards Askar Ali </body> </html>