Do the conf check on nagios.cfg (after uncommenting the host.cfg option in the nagios.cfg) cause when I did it on these other cfg files it every uncommented line seems to be an error. /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v nagios.cfg in /usr/local/nagios/etc it will point out the errors. -- Ismail <div>On 7/18/06, karthik arya <<a href="mailto:bt_karthik@yahoo.com"> bt_karthik@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">hey I'm trying to install nagios-1.4.1 and nagios-plugins-1.4.3 on Fedora 3. Well, to make things easy i followed the steps (to install) as on : <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/09/05/nagios.html">http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/09/05/nagios.html </a> and (part 2) : <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/09/26/nagios.html">http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/09/26/nagios.html</a> I have made changes to the configuration files as explained in part 2. But, when i try to fire up nagios, i get the following error: [root@thames etc]# service nagios restart Running configuration check... Nagios 1.4.1 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Ethan Galstad (<a href="mailto:nagios@nagios.org"> nagios@nagios.org</a>) Last Modified: 05-15-2006 License: GPL Reading configuration data... Error: Invalid host object directive '#'. Error: Could not add object property in file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg' on line 3. ***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files... Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid directives and data defintions. If you are upgrading from a previous version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions may have been removed or modified in this version. Make sure to read the HTML documentation on the main and host config files, as well as the 'Whats New' section to find out what has changed. failed - aborting restart. Any help???????? regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash <a href="http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV"> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net"> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a 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 </blockquote></div>