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Good Day ,

I have one problem with my server nagios because I delete the logs to free space , I can't start service give me one error message :
Reading configuration data...
Error in configuration file '/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg' - Line 471 (Check result path is not a valid directory)
Error processing main config file!

when I search I found that directory not valid check_result_path=/var/log/nagios/spool/checkresults , what I did in log I creat folder nagiso and inside It I creat folder spool
but when I must creat the directory check_result_path .

Can somone help me I will be thankful .

Many Thanks

Are you saying that you created a new directory for check results? And then changed it in the nagios.cfg file? What happens when you switch the results directory back to the original?

excuse me , what I did i went to /var/log/ after I creat folder nagios insid it I create folder spoole inside it I create a file checkresults but still give me the same error .

I think I did somthing wrong ?

Many Thanks

/var/log/nagios/spool/checkresults should actually be a folder not a file, and it needs to be writable by nagios user and group. Are you using Ubuntu by chance? I only ask because the default for CentOS and RHEL is /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults.

thank you very much for your answer I use fedora so what you advice me to do ?

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We're glad to help, as Sreinhardt pointed out: Is supposed to be a folder not a file, it is where check result data is sent for processing. How did you install Nagios?

Normaly one year that I m working with nagios just in last days i can't start server nagios , gave me black screen when I m strated in single mode i found that logs are full 19 Go so I delete all logs so after the server started normaly but I can't start service nagios , I think from here come the problem when I delete all logs files .

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I creat the dirctory now give another errer permission I forgot how to do it ?

Checking misc settings...
Error: Unable to write to temp_path ('/var/log/nagios/spool/checkresults') - Permission denied
Error: Unable to write to check_result_path ('/var/log/nagios/spool/checkresults') - Permission denied

I will be thankful if you can remember me how I can add Permission ?

Many Thanks

All The Best

/var/log/nagios/spool/checkresults should actually be a folder not a file, and it needs to be writable by nagios user and group

You must change the directory's to have permissions:

Please see this post for an explanation of permission changes, and how to make the directories writable for the nagios user.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1070 ... y-writable

Thank you very much , the problem is fixed .

Many Thanks

All The Best