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ok...

Thanks so much for all your help fellas.

In my desparation, I deleted /etc/nagios then ran:

sudo apt-get install -y nagios3
than simply followed the instructions...
I'm now runnign Nagios...



Rich

forgive the newbiness, but are you referring to:

localhost.cfg?

if so, it exists, but the hostname line is currently set to the machines hostname.
R

Well, you got farther this time. Have you defined a template with the name "localhost"? What does your hosttemplates.cfg look like? Have you defined a template with the name "localhost"? Nope! What does your hosttemplates.cfg look like? I searched, and didn;t find onea them.... ...

thanks for the reply, but I'm striking out: here's the relevant section...any idears? # Define a host for the local machine define host{ use localhost ; Name of host template to use host_name myHostName alias localhost address 127.0.0.1 } Command output is: Processing object config file '/usr/local/...

Sorry lads, but so far I'm not seeing why I continue to get this after a vanilla system(Ubuntu 12..nothing else) Read main config file okay... Processing object config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg'... E...