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tallbuilding
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New Install Error

Post by tallbuilding »

I have installed Nagios Core on Ubuntu Server 20 and getting the following error when I try to start the service:
Job for nagios.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
Results of systemctl status nagios.service are:
● nagios.service - Nagios Core 4.4.6
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nagios.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-08-04 18:57:10 UTC; 10s ago
Docs: https://www.nagios.org/documentation
Process: 18469 ExecStartPre=/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg (code=exited, status=2>
Process: 18482 ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/rm -f /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Aug 04 18:57:10 lserver nagios[18469]: Copyright (c) 2009-present Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributo>
Aug 04 18:57:10 lserver nagios[18469]: Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
Aug 04 18:57:10 lserver nagios[18469]: Last Modified: 2020-04-28
Aug 04 18:57:10 lserver nagios[18469]: License: GPL
Aug 04 18:57:10 lserver nagios[18469]: Website: https://www.nagios.org
Aug 04 18:57:10 lserver nagios[18469]: Reading configuration data...
Aug 04 18:57:10 lserver nagios[18469]: Error: Cannot open main configuration file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg' fo>
Aug 04 18:57:10 lserver systemd[1]: nagios.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=254/n/a
Aug 04 18:57:10 lserver systemd[1]: nagios.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 04 18:57:10 lserver systemd[1]: Failed to start Nagios Core 4.4.6.
The directory /usr/local/nagios/etc/ only contains htpasswd.users and no nagios.cfg file. Is that the issue? Is there a cfg file I can drop into that directory?

Thanks
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