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Hi

i have an issue with nagios.cmd missing ,and as a result i keep getting an error "Error: Could not stat() command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'!"

if i stop the service , kill all the nagios processes running and start the service again, the nagios.cmd return to "/usr/local/nagios/var/rw", but after a day or two ,the problem returns and the file is missing again

i encounter this issue before and solved it with fixing the permission on the nagios directories , but it didn't work.

any ideas how to solve it?

thanks

The nagios.cmd file should be opened by the child process which could be crashing for some reason and then unable to open a new nagios.cmd(maybe due to the parent still being alive). Try running nagios in the foreground to see if any errors occur around the time you notice the problem:

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

You can also check the process ids and verify which one has nagios.cmd open with:

lsof /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
ps -Fa | grep nagios.cfg