Same issue: however started digging. I thought the install was a build. Have you switched to RPM's?
[root@lxjh159 init.d]# rpm -qa | grep nagios
nagios-common-4.3.2-5.el6.x86_64
nagios-repo-6-2.el6.noarch
nagios-4.3.2-5.el6.x86_64
Snippet from init script:
[root@lxjh159 init.d]# cat nagios
#!/bin/sh
#
# chkconfig: - 99 01
# description: Nagios network monitor
# processname: nagios
# File : nagios
#
# Author : Jorge Sanchez Aymar (
[email protected])
#
# Changelog :
#
# 1999-07-09 Karl DeBisschop <
[email protected]>
# - setup for autoconf
# - add reload function
# 1999-08-06 Ethan Galstad <
[email protected]>
# - Added configuration info for use with RedHat's chkconfig tool
# per Fran Boon's suggestion
# 1999-08-13 Jim Popovitch <
[email protected]>
# - added variable for nagios/var directory
# - cd into nagios/var directory before creating tmp files on startup
# 1999-08-16 Ethan Galstad <
[email protected]>
# - Added test for rc.d directory as suggested by Karl DeBisschop
# 2000-07-23 Karl DeBisschop <
[email protected]>
# - Clean out redhat macros and other dependencies
# 2003-01-11 Ethan Galstad <
[email protected]>
# - Updated su syntax (Gary Miller)
#
# Description: Starts and stops the Nagios monitor
# used to provide network services status.
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: nagios
# Required-Start: $local_fs $syslog $network
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $syslog $network
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Starts and stops the Nagios monitoring server
# Description: Starts and stops the Nagios monitoring server
### END INIT INFO
# Our install-time configuration.
prefix=/usr/share/nagios
exec_prefix=/var/lib/nagios
NagiosBin=/usr/sbin/nagios
NagiosCfgFile=/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
NagiosCfgtestFile=/var/log/nagios/nagios.configtest
NagiosStatusFile=/var/log/nagios/status.dat
NagiosRetentionFile=/var/log/nagios/retention.dat
NagiosCommandFile=/var/spool/nagios/cmd/nagios.cmd
NagiosVarDir=/var/log/nagios/
NagiosRunFile=/var/run/nagios/nagios.pid
NagiosLockDir=/var/lock/subsys
NagiosLockFile=nagios
NagiosCGIDir=/usr/sbin
NagiosUser=nagios
NagiosGroup=nagios
checkconfig="true"