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Posted: **Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:50 am**

Hi!

I've installed a nagios 4.3.1 on a 64 bit Ubuntu Server 16.04.

I can use the '/etc/init.d/nagios start' to start the nagios daemon and it works fine.

However, on boot, nagios does not start by itself.

When I try to run update-rc.d to register/enable nagios I get a warning I'm not understanding:

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root@srvtmsmon:~# update-rc.d nagios defaults
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (2 3 4 5 S) of script `nagios' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).

root@srvtmsmon:~# update-rc.d nagios enable
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (2 3 4 5 S) of script `nagios' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).

I have tried several init scripts:
a) the one created by the 'make install-init'
b) an altered version of the skeleton
c) a copies script from another host with nagios 4.x which works fine

I'm losing my imagination I couldn't find a post with an answer.

The closest I found was the one below, but it didn't work for me
ref = https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewt ... 7&t=11511

Posted: **Thu Apr 20, 2017 3:46 pm**

Can you start nagios and enable it using systemctl?

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systemctl enable nagios.service
systemctl start nagios.service

Posted: **Thu Apr 20, 2017 3:53 pm**

If @tgriep's suggestion doesn't work, you may need to reinstall the init

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cd /tmp
wget -O nagioscore.tar.gz https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/archive/nagios-4.3.1.tar.gz
tar xzf nagioscore.tar.gz
cd /tmp/nagioscore-nagios-4.3.1/
sudo ./configure --with-httpd-conf=/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
sudo make install-init
sudo update-rc.d nagios defaults

Posted: **Fri Apr 21, 2017 4:12 am**

tgriep wrote:Can you start nagios and enable it using systemctl?
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systemctl enable nagios.service
systemctl start nagios.service

I've tried but it made no diference:

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root@srvtmsmon:~# systemctl enable nagios.service
Synchronizing state of nagios.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install...
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable nagios
root@srvtmsmon:~# systemctl start nagios.service
root@srvtmsmon:~# ps -ef |grep nagios
root       1717   1591  0 10:10 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto nagios
root@srvtmsmon:~#

Posted: **Fri Apr 21, 2017 4:23 am**

dwhitfield wrote:If @tgriep's suggestion doesn't work, you may need to reinstall the init

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cd /tmp
wget -O nagioscore.tar.gz https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/archive/nagios-4.3.1.tar.gz
tar xzf nagioscore.tar.gz
cd /tmp/nagioscore-nagios-4.3.1/
sudo ./configure --with-httpd-conf=/etc/apache2/sites-enabled
sudo make install-init
sudo update-rc.d nagios defaults

It didn't work either.

When I run the 'sudo update-rc.d nagios defaults', the terminal didn't complain about LSB defaults, but the service does not start on boot either.

Posted: **Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:01 am**

You may have done this but after going through my instructions use the enable command with systemctl. As long as it's registered with systemctl, enable should start it at boot.

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:45 am**

Ive trashed the previous VM, reinstalled Ubuntu and Nagios - SOLVED

Posted: **Thu Nov 16, 2017 12:33 pm**

Sounds good! I'll be closing this thread!

If you have any more questions, feel free to create another thread.

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