> 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.
It looks like this error is being caused by the FreeBSD port's rc.d
script. Running /usr/local/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/etc/nagios/nagios.cf
on the command line works fine. I'll keep investigating and see what I
can dig up.
HTH,
Matt
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