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CentOs 7 doesn't really support the old system. "service nagios start" for instance is just an alias for systemctl. I suppose I could run things directly from init.d.

I tried the tar balls first. The node is running except that it didn't set up the systemd links. I tried to do them manually, but they don't work. systemd is still an intensely frustrating mystery to me.

I'm migrating to CentOS 7 from 6. I've installed Nagios through yum. The install works, meshes with systemd and everything. I've copied over my config files, worked out the bugs, nagios -v nagios.cfg says it's fine. But when I start it I get: [1424718549] Error: p1.pl file required for embedded Perl...

HA! Figured it out. I copied my old config files to the new system. Nagios' bright shiny new directory structure foils hopeless user yearnings like these. I suppose you all want to try and create an installation that works for everybody, which is why you create your own little mini unix directory tr...

I should also say that I installed it from the tar ball and I'm using CentOS 7.

The installs Nagios in /usr/local/nagios/[bin|etc|include|libexec|sbin|share|var], which is lovely except that all the scripting still points to the normal /etc/nagios /usr/lib/nagios directories! I see nothing but: [root@localhost nagios]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagio...