On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:28 PM, David Dyer-Bennet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The init file built and installed by "make install-init" doesn't seem to
> work right. I 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. I suppose that could be the wrong fix for that problem, and
> hence causing this one.
>
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? :-)
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