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Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:18 am**

Similar to issue faced at https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... =7&t=22141 , I installed Nagios Core 4.0.8 on CentOS7 and running into same issue inspite of configuring the query_socket variable. Even after adding the said variable, I run into error:

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Dec 11 06:05:56 0.nserver.com nagios[23593]: Nagios 4.0.8 starting... (PID=23593)
Dec 11 06:05:56 0.nserver.com nagios[23593]: Local time is Fri Dec 11 06:05:56 UTC 2015
Dec 11 06:05:56 0.nserver.com nagios[23593]: qh: Failed to init socket '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/query.sh'. bind() failed: No such file or directory
Dec 11 06:05:56 0.nserver.com nagios[23593]: Error: Failed to initialize query handler. Aborting
Dec 11 06:05:56 0.nserver.com systemd[1]: nagios.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 11 06:05:56 0.nserver.com systemd[1]: Unit nagios.service entered failed state.

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:16 am**

How did you install core? Source / repo?

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:48 pm**

I am installing Nagios using Salt from EPEL repo directly from binaries. I was able to work around the issue by creating the directory /usr/local/nagios/rw/query and making sure nagios and subdirectories are owned by user & group nagios. Though still wondering why would installation not do it by itself. Since the installation is done as root user through salt-minion, access should not be an issue.

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2015 2:00 pm**

I believe the version on the repo uses different file paths than compiling from source..

I don't have a Cent7 machine set up at the moment that I can put core on, but here's an example of /etc/init.d/nagios

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 Our install-time configuration.
prefix=/usr/local/nagios
exec_prefix=${prefix}
NagiosBin=${exec_prefix}/bin/nagios
NagiosCfgFile=${prefix}/etc/nagios.cfg
NagiosCfgtestFile=${prefix}/var/nagios.configtest
NagiosStatusFile=${prefix}/var/status.dat
NagiosRetentionFile=${prefix}/var/retention.dat
NagiosCommandFile=${prefix}/var/rw/nagios.cmd
NagiosVarDir=${prefix}/var
NagiosRunFile=${prefix}/var/nagios.lock
NagiosLockDir=/var/lock/subsys
NagiosLockFile=nagios
NagiosCGIDir=${exec_prefix}/sbin
NagiosUser=nagios
NagiosGroup=nagios
checkconfig="true"

You may want to verify these match up with the directory that actually gets made

Perhaps take a look /usr/lib/systemd/system/ ? I don't have system in front of me to test like I said, so that file path may be slightly wrong.

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