Re: [Nagios-devel] Nagios fails on empty config file
Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:53 am
Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is a forward from the Debian BTS, http://bugs.debian.org/354007.
>
> If Nagios 2 encounters an empty config file, it exits with "invalid
> argument":
>
> |Reading configuration data...
> |
> |Error: Cannot open config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/imap.cfg' for
> |reading: Invalid argument
> |
> |***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files...
> |
> | Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
> | directives and data defintions. If you are upgrading from a previous
> | version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
> | may have been removed or modified in this version. Make sure to read
> | the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
> | 'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.
> |
> |* errors in config!
> | failed!
> |invoke-rc.d: initscript nagios2, action "start" failed.
> |root@debian:/etc/nagios-plugins/config#
>
> This has been verified to be still present in nagios 2.5.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
I believe this is proper behavior. The "Invalid argument" string is
coming from the system via the strerror() function.
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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> Hi,
>
> this is a forward from the Debian BTS, http://bugs.debian.org/354007.
>
> If Nagios 2 encounters an empty config file, it exits with "invalid
> argument":
>
> |Reading configuration data...
> |
> |Error: Cannot open config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/imap.cfg' for
> |reading: Invalid argument
> |
> |***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files...
> |
> | Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
> | directives and data defintions. If you are upgrading from a previous
> | version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
> | may have been removed or modified in this version. Make sure to read
> | the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
> | 'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.
> |
> |* errors in config!
> | failed!
> |invoke-rc.d: initscript nagios2, action "start" failed.
> |root@debian:/etc/nagios-plugins/config#
>
> This has been verified to be still present in nagios 2.5.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
I believe this is proper behavior. The "Invalid argument" string is
coming from the system via the strerror() function.
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
---
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.nagios.org
This post was automatically imported from historical nagios-devel mailing list archives
Original poster: [email protected]