<div>Hi Ifeanyi,</div> <div> </div> <div>The issue points to a permission issue - how did you install nagios? Did you compile it or you used a package manager to install. What environment are you using? Redhat - Centos? What version of nagios did you install/</div> <div> </div> <div>Alex<br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Ifeanyi Agu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ifepet2002@yahoo.com">ifepet2002@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top">Hello Alex,<br><br>I have the changed the owner and group of the file to nagios but I still get the same error in nagios.log file when I try to start nagios. I tried this when logged in as the root user. I then logged in as nagios user and I could not even start apache or nagios. It was telling me that service is not a command it recognises. Please, please, please help me. Am running outta time<br> <br>Ifeanyi Agu<br>08063728802<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 25/8/10, Alex Dehaini <i><<a href="mailto:alexdehaini@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdehaini@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><br>From: Alex Dehaini <<a href="mailto:alexdehaini@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdehaini@gmail.com</a>> <div class="im"><br>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Internal Server Error Occuring when trying to access Nagios on the browser<br>To: "Nagios Users List" <<a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>><br> </div>Date: Wednesday, 25 August, 2010, 5:48 PM <div> <div></div> <div class="h5"><br><br> <div>Permission issue - have nagios user and group own the file; heck the entire directory, :)<br><br> <div>On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ifeanyi Agu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://mc/compose?to=ifepet2002@yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ifepet2002@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top">Hello Jim,<br><br>I used that command to test and there are 0 warnings and o errors. I also checked my Nagios log and this is what I got<br><br>[1282635168] Nagios 3.2.1 starting... (PID=4250)<br>[1282635168] Local time is Tue Aug 24 08:32:48 WAT 2010<br> [1282635168] LOG VERSION: 2.0<br>[1282635168] Warning: Could not open object cache file '/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache' for writing!<br>[1282635168] Failed to obtain lock on file /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock: Permission denied<br> [1282635168] Bailing out due to errors encountered while attempting to daemonize... (PID=4250)<br><br>Please do you know why am not able to write to the file?<br><br>Thanks a lot for the support so far <div><br><br>Ifeanyi Agu<br>08063728802<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 25/8/10, Jim Avery <i><<a href="http://mc/compose?to=jim@jimavery.me.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jim@jimavery.me.uk</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"> <div><br>From: Jim Avery <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=jim@jimavery.me.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jim@jimavery.me.uk</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Internal Server Error Occuring when trying to access Nagios on the browser<br> To: "Nagios Users List" <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a>><br></div>Date: Wednesday, 25 August, 2010, 5:29 PM <div> <div></div> <div><br><br> <div>On 25 August 2010 14:55, Ifeanyi Agu <<a href="http://mc/compose?to=ifepet2002@yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ifepet2002@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Hello Jim,<br>><br>> Thanks for the help so far. 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