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

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 7:22 am
by Guest
Anyone? Any help with this would be very much appreciated.

Many thanks,
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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