Dear Tim, (Yes, I am the nitwit).
> -----Original Message----- > Mr Hopcroft, > > My first reaction was an unqualified "yuk!, what nitwit would even > consider this", then I noticed it was you, and having seen your ever > useful posts since the Netsaint 0.0.7 days, I relented. Although > hearing vi called "anachronistic" ruffles a couple of feathers. (OT. Have a look at what Rob Pike has been saying about Unix for some years. To an MSCE, vi is .. well I am happy with my original choice of words. I am not a Windows admin and am perfectly happy with vi to do my Nagios configuration [or my own home brew semi-automation] but not everyone who likes Nagios likes vi). > Notepad isn't? > No accounting for taste... (OT. For unambitious text mangling it's Ok. How many people depend on vi macros or even conditional substitution ?) > > I can't actually speak to your specific question, but it just seems > like a scary thought. Better to run samba on the Nagios machine and > let them mount it, and/or SVN. And then there's the GUI method, of > course. Good thought but why should they change to suit one application ? At this site there are no Unix Sys admin skills (apart from me) and everyone likes Windows. Having the configs on Win means management is happy they are adequately backed up. Does cfg_dir=/Some/Path actually work ? and if so, would anyone be so kind as to paste a few lines containing these directives from their nagios.cfg ? Here is the problem, adding a cfg_dir to point to a _Unix_ directory like so *************** *** 78,83 **** --- 78,87 ---- # extension) in a particular directory by using the cfg_dir # directive as shown below: + cfg_dir=/etc/nagios + + # cfg_dir=/mnt/dest_smb/coms/NMS/nagios + #cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/servers #cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/printers #cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/switches [EMAIL PROTECTED] nagios]# causes [EMAIL PROTECTED] nagios]# nagios -v nagios.cfg Nagios 2.9 Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org) Last Modified: 04-10-2007 License: GPL Reading configuration data... Error: Unexpected token or statement in file '/etc/nagios/cgi.cfg' on line 23. ***> 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 regarding the config files, as well as the 'Whats New' section to find out what has changed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nagios]# Take out cfg_dir and all is well. > > good luck! > > tim Thank you. Yours sincerely. Classification: UNCLASSIFIED ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
