Forced to authenticate to start nagios, but still fails

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ssax
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Re: Forced to authenticate to start nagios, but still fails

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You must type sudo if you are not root.

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sudo service nagios restart
Zippyduda
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Re: Forced to authenticate to start nagios, but still fails

Post by Zippyduda »

This can be marked as solved now.

Apologies, I did know about the sudo thing but forgot to mention.

Weird that the behaviour changed to need sudo when it didn't when I first installed nagios!
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Re: Forced to authenticate to start nagios, but still fails

Post by scottwilkerson »

Zippyduda wrote:This can be marked as solved now.

Apologies, I did know about the sudo thing but forgot to mention.

Weird that the behaviour changed to need sudo when it didn't when I first installed nagios!
Great!

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