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Hi !
I have a very strange problem
the directory objects which is located in : /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects has been transformed into a file called objects ( that I can't open )
the directory has been disapeared

plz help hhhh

Unfortunately, the files in that directory are probably gone unless you have a backup somewhere. If you do have a backup, just do a restore. Otherwise, you can get the default files from this directory back simply by copying them out of Nagios Core source again, but you will need to redo any custom changes you had made.

copying them out of Nagios Core source again ??

How ? I don't get it please !

In the Nagios source directory where you originally compiled it, there is a subdirectory sample-config/ which should contain the default configuration. You might need to run './configure && make all' first as if you were reinstalling to get the right files to appear (you don't want the ones with the *.in file extension).

Well, trully I have configured some files in that folder so I don't want to reinstall anything

one month of working !!!!!

I'm sad cause I realized that the folder has been transformed into an application ( when I check the proprities, I find TYPE : (application/octet-stream)

How's thaaaaat ???

have you ever got that problem ??

But i have to tell you that when I put : ls /usr/local/nagios/etc in the terminal

It tells me that objects is a folder (with blue color)


????

I'm not sure what could have caused that. It sucks, but you will probably have to start over... Don't forget to take backups this time!

Well

I tried to show my files contained in objects folder by the command

gedit /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/switch.cfg (for example)

with this solution

I think it's Ok!

So, nothing happened to the objects directory after all?

Yes

It exists but I can't access to it directly

Actually I noticed that a lot of changes happened since I have installed CENTREON


Thank's a lot for your help