Fresh Install - Can't open /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

[steveallen1987]

Hi

I'm currently following the installation documentation at: http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... Source.pdf

I'm installing Nagios onto a fresh install of Ubuntu Server.

I receive the following error:

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root@nagios:/tmp/nagios-4.0.2# /etc/init.d/nagios start
/etc/init.d/nagios: 20: .: Can't open /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
root@nagios:/tmp/nagios-4.0.2#

Everything else up to this point worked OK. The only other slight problem was when changing into the Nagios directory it states "cd nagios" but I have to use "cd nagios-4.0.2". Would this cause any problems?

Does anyone know how I can fix the start error?

Thanks,

[tmcdonald]

I was about to type out a reply but this link says basically what I was going to:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1960 ... -functions

[steveallen1987]

Would it be better for me to just install Nagios on a different OS.

Which would you recommend?

Kind regards,

[tmcdonald]

We officially develop on and support RHEL/CentOS systems and have found them to be very stable and reliable. Nagios installation and configuration is pretty painless on a CentOS system and is generally what we run in the office for testing.

[steveallen1987]

Thanks mate will start again with CentOS.

Cheers,

[tmcdonald]

I'm going to close this thread but feel free to open another if you need help with anything else.