<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Shiv, That was it. I was staring at it all along and then it suddenly dawned on me -- nagios runs as the nagios user and not as root. Changed ownership of the file and it works now. -- Rob Shivkumar said the following on 08/08/2007 09:01 PM: <blockquote cite="mid46BA9194.7040009@outbackwifi.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> Rob Tanner said the following: <blockquote cite="mid:46BA41E7.7020904@linfield.edu" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> Marc, The retain_status_information and retain_nonstatus_information options are both set to 1 in the default templates at the top of the hosts.cfg and services.cfg files and I am specifying those default templates for almost all of the service and host entries. Something else must still be missing. </blockquote> Could it be the permissions on the state.dat file? Regards, Shiv </blockquote> </body> </html>