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Error processing main config file!!

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 11:18 am
by kpavuluri
Can any one help me to fix this problem!

website : https://www.nagios.org
Reading configuration data...
Error in configuration file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg' - Line 453 (Check result path '/usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults' is not a valid directory)
Error processing main config file!

I already check my directory to make sure that I have nagios.cfg in usr/local/nagios/etc

Re: Error processing main config file!!

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 11:57 am
by scottwilkerson
From the error it looks like you have your check_result_path set to /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults and the directory cannot be accessed

Does it exist?

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ls -ld /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults
If not you are going to need to create it and set the correct permissions

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mkdir -p /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults
chown nagios.nagios -R /usr/local/nagios/var/spool
chmod ug+rw -R /usr/local/nagios/var/spool
chmod g+s /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults