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The compile should install things to /usr/local . You can see that in your original error message: make[1]: execvp: /usr/local/nagios/share: Permission denied Our instructions don't say to reboot, so I'm a little confused about what actually happened. Did you get a message during compile that said ...

Because I had followed the instructions literally Which instructions? Not all distros clear tmp on reboot, but we can make a note that that's a possibility. The installation instructions for Ubuntu: https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/nagios-core-installing-nagios-core-from-source.html#Ubuntu Com...

Gentlemen, thank you for the prompt reply! Because I had followed the instructions literally, I was working on the nagios plugins in the tmp folder. I had to reboot, which erased my progress, so I had to start installing the plugins from scratch. This time everything went through! The problem has be...

Hello dear Nagios community, I am working on installing Nagios Core on Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS. Everything was going great (following the install guide) until I reached the point of installing nagios-plugins-release-2.2.1. I get an "access denied" error when I do "sudo make install&qu...