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and when i now try to delete the # an take wq!
452 check_result_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults
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457 # MAX CHECK RESULT FILE AGE
458 # This option determines the maximum age (in seconds) which check
459 # result files are considered to be valid. Files older than this
460 # threshold will be mercilessly deleted without further processing.
"nagios.cfg" 1348L, 44829C written
E138: Cannot write viminfo file /.viminfo!
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Your install is pretty broken, you're better off following the official guide and starting fresh - https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.p ... ategory=58 - these instructions should work like a charm.

Agreed. Let's start fresh and see if we get better results. For future reference you can always use a program like winscp to connect to the Nagios server with the root credentials and transfer files to your local machine.

ok.. so you mean that i shall install ubuntu server an nagios with a fresh install? or just upgrade nagios

I'd suggest reinstalling the OS if possible just to be sure we get everything, otherwise we can just remove the /usr/local/nagios directory. Make sure to follow the steps in https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... buntu.html. It currently points at slightly older versions of the core and plugins. The latest versions can be found at https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... 3.1.tar.gz and http://nagios-plugins.org/download/nagi ... 2.0.tar.gz.

i have now install ubuntu 16.04 abnd try to follow this
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.p ... ategory=58

but it dosent work
when i come to this download the source

cd /tmp/nagioscore-nagios-4.3.1/
ubuntu say the file or folder not found

Make sure you've uncompressed the file first before trying to cd to the directory:

cd /tmp
wget -O nagioscore.tar.gz https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/na ... 3.1.tar.gz
tar xzf nagioscore.tar.gz

If that doesn't work, provide the output of "ls -l /tmp"