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Can Nagios be installed to not use /home/nagios?
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:13 am
by pdindak
On a server where I am installing Nagios 3.3.1 as sudo root, no /home directories are allowed.
Can I configure Nagios install to place /home/nagios somewhere else?
Thanks for your help!
Phil
Re: Can Nagios be installed to not use /home/nagios?
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:52 am
by agriffin
Yes, you can create the nagios user before you start the installation (from source) and give it a different home directory. For example:
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# /usr/sbin/useradd -r -m -d /var/log/nagios -s /bin/sh -c "Nagios User" nagios
This will put it in /var/log/nagios instead of /home/nagios. Hope that helps!
Re: Can Nagios be installed to not use /home/nagios?
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:06 pm
by pdindak
It sure did! Thanks for the info!
Phil
Re: Can Nagios be installed to not use /home/nagios?
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:48 pm
by agriffin
You're welcome, Phil! Glad I could help!