Services Will Not Start Up

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slansing
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Re: Services Will Not Start Up

Post by slansing »

Are cron and NDO running?

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service crond start

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service ndo2db start
matt.lilek
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Re: Services Will Not Start Up

Post by matt.lilek »

service crond start does not seem to be getting any type of response
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Re: Services Will Not Start Up

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to add when i try to start the grapher it says an error occured when trying to process your request
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Re: Services Will Not Start Up

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suggestions please
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Re: Services Will Not Start Up

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Just so you're aware, bumping your thread actually brings it down in our time-based queue.

What is the output of "service crond status"?
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Re: Services Will Not Start Up

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==> nagios.log <==
[1384272714] Nagios 3.5.0 starting... (PID=4974)
[1384272714] Local time is Tue Nov 12 11:11:54 EST 2013
[1384272714] LOG VERSION: 2.0
[1384272714] ndomod: NDOMOD 1.5.2 (06-08-2012) Copyright (c) 2009 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
[1384272714] ndomod: Could not open data sink! I'll keep trying, but some output may get lost...
[1384272714] Event broker module '/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o' initialized successfully.
[1384272714] Failed to obtain lock on file /usr/local/nagios/var: Is a directory
[1384272714] Bailing out due to errors encountered while attempting to daemonize... (PID=4974)
[1384272714] ndomod: Shutdown complete.
[1384272714] Event broker module '/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o' deinitialized successfully.
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Re: Services Will Not Start Up

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That's what "service crond status" outputs?
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Re: Services Will Not Start Up

Post by matt.lilek »

crond (pid 5664) is running...
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Re: Services Will Not Start Up

Post by abrist »

It looks like it is having a problem creating a lock file:
matt.lilek wrote:[1384272714] ndomod: NDOMOD 1.5.2 (06-08-2012) Copyright (c) 2009 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
[1384272714] ndomod: Could not open data sink! I'll keep trying, but some output may get lost...
[1384272714] Event broker module '/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o' initialized successfully.
[1384272714] Failed to obtain lock on file /usr/local/nagios/var: Is a directory
What is the output of:

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ls -la /usr/local/nagios/var
grep lock_file /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
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Re: Services Will Not Start Up

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[root@att1-nag1 ~]# service crond status
crond (pid 5664) is running...
[root@att1-nag1 ~]# ls -la /usr/local/nagios/var
total 16140
drwxrwxr-x 6 nagios nagios 4096 Nov 12 11:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jun 5 15:22 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Nov 8 00:00 archives
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios users 0 Nov 8 14:38 host-perfdata
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 0 Nov 12 11:18 nagios.lock
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 879356 Nov 12 11:18 nagios.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 5 Nov 12 11:12 ndo2db.lock
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios users 0 Nov 12 11:18 ndomod.tmp
srwxr-xr-x 1 nagios nagios 0 Nov 12 11:12 ndo.sock
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 1552879 Nov 8 15:22 npcd.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 4464782 Nov 12 11:18 objects.cache
-rw-rw-rw- 1 nagios nagios 3030505 Nov 8 13:48 perfdata.log
-rw------- 1 nagios users 6542315 Nov 12 11:18 retention.dat
drwxrwsr-x 2 nagios nagcmd 4096 Nov 8 14:38 rw
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios users 0 Nov 8 14:38 service-perfdata
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 5 15:22 spool
drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Nov 8 14:38 stats
[root@att1-nag1 ~]# grep lock_file /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
lock_file=/usr/local/nagios/var
[root@att1-nag1 ~]#
Locked