Package: nagios4-common Version: 4.4.6-4.1 Followup-For: Bug #998045 > My previous systemd drop-in workaround was incomplete.
The PIDFile being incorrect is a nuisance. IMO it's easiest to just remove it rather than trying to keep this definition consistent across two places, systemd can automatically detect its path correctly from how nagios4 executes. My alternative approach, based on upstream's -d option, via systemd overrides using `systemctl edit nagios4`: ~~~~ # Note, this is an override, not the full service definition [Service] # https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=998045 # https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/blob/master/startup/default-service.in Type=forking # Explicitly delete previous ExecStart= otherwise systemd complains ExecStart= ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nagios4 -d ${NAGIOSCFG} ExecStop=/bin/kill -TERM ${MAINPID} # Typo in Debian systemd service file for PIDFile # Just remove it since systemd can detect it automatically PIDFile= User=nagios RuntimeDirectory=nagios4 ~~~~ I also had to add User=nagios otherwise the RuntimeDirectory gets created as root:root and nagios4 fails because it can't write to it. Not sure why it worked for you but I am writing in 2025 so perhaps some things got tightened up since when you tried it. -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.17.8+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages nagios4-common depends on: ii adduser 3.153 ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1.1 ii coreutils 9.7-3 ii libjs-jquery 3.7.1+dfsg+~3.5.33-1 ii mailutils [mailx] 1:3.20-2 ii monitoring-plugins-basic 2.4.0-4 ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.15-6 ii ucf 3.0052 Versions of packages nagios4-common recommends: pn monitoring-plugins <none> nagios4-common suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/nagios4/nagios.cfg changed [not included] /etc/nagios4/objects/localhost.cfg changed [not included] /etc/nagios4/resource.cfg [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/nagios4/resource.cfg' -- no debconf information
