On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 19:42 +0200, Horvath Tamas wrote:
> I installed Nagios 1.1 in two machines, and upgarded each of them to
> 1.2. In every case the /etc/init.d/nagios script contains the "su -l
> $Nagios -c "touch $NagiosVar/nagios.log $NagiosSav" line under start)
> section. It starts nagios with an error message: "su invalid option --
> l". It is true, because I read the man page and the help of su, but
> there is no "l".
> I use Debian Woody 3.1. What does this l mean? Can I simply delete it,
> or should I substitute it with other parameter?
-l just denotes what user you're changing to (or acting as).
So, "su -l bob" means "change to user bob"
Change it to whatever is appropriate for your version of su.
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