The init script should really be changed to this so we avoid this problem altogether... NagiosStatusFile=$(grep "status_file=" $NagiosCfgFile | awk -F\= '{print $2}') NagiosRetentionFile=$(grep "state_retention_file=" $NagiosCfgFile | awk -F\= '{print $2}') NagiosCommandFile=$(grep "command_file" $NagiosCfgFile | awk -F\= '{print $2}') NagiosCacheFile=$(grep "object_cache_file" $NagiosCfgFile | awk -F\= '{print $2}') NagiosPrecacheFile=$(grep "precached_object_file" $NagiosCfgFile | awk -F\= '{print $2}') NagiosRunFile=$(grep "lock_file" $NagiosCfgFile | awk -F\= '{print $2}') <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Martin Melin <<a href="mailto:martinm@op5.org">martinm@op5.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:28 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <<a href="mailto:dd-b@dd-b.net" target="_blank">dd-b@dd-b.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The init file built and installed by "make install-init" doesn't seem to work right. 狢 apparently have nagios running after saying "service nagios start" (it reported success), based on receiving some notifications and on ps showing /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios running as a daemon, but "service nagios status" reports "nagios is not running". (This is on a Centos 4.8 system, with Nagios 3.2.1 built from source.) I configured this version with "--with-lockfile=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.pid" after the previous version, without that, logged a permissions error when it tried to start up nagios. 狢 suppose that could be the wrong fix for that problem, and hence causing this one. </blockquote><div> This is probably because the init script says: NagiosRunFile=${prefix}/var/nagios.lock But your pid file is called nagios.pid. So either recompile Nagios, or edit your init script to look in the nagios.pid file instead (probably the easier route, eh? :-) </div></div>-- Martin Melin May your delusions be benign and your compulsions have utility ____________________________ op5 AB <a href="http://www.op5.com" target="_blank">http://www.op5.com</a> <a href="http://www.op5.org/" target="_blank">http://www.op5.org/</a> <a href="http://www.op5.com/op5/products/network-monitor/nagios/" target="_blank">http://www.op5.com/op5/products/network-monitor/nagios/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev</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" target="_blank">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>