Re: [Nagios-devel] Re: Warning: Could not get group entry for 'nagios'

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Re: [Nagios-devel] Re: Warning: Could not get group entry for 'nagios'

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I must have missed the "jail" - Are both Nagios and Apache running in the
same jail?

does the /etc/group inside the jail contain the appropriate entry for
nagios?

-sg


On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 [email protected] wrote:

> Using ktrace and kdump crashed my box. I have ascertained however that
> the problem only occurs when Nagios is run as a daemon (not when it's
> run in the foreground). Also, from ktrace it looks like Nagios found
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group with no problems.
>
> Matt
>
> Matt Bostock wrote:
>> *** I tried sending this to nagios-users but didn't get a response, I
>> figured maybe it's more suitable in the dev mailing list, hope that's ok.***
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to run Nagios inside a FreeBSD jail, but am getting this in
>> nagios.log:
>>
>> [1116603291] Nagios 2.0b3 starting... (PID=88484)
>> [1116603291] LOG VERSION: 2.0
>> [1116603336] Warning: Could not get group entry for 'nagios'
>> [1116603336] Warning: Could not set effective GID=-1
>> [1116603336] Failed to drop privileges. Aborting.
>>
>> After that, Nagios exits. The nagios user and group are definetly set
>> up. Any suggestions would be very gratefully appreciated.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Matt :)
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