[Nagiosplug-help] NAGIOS fails to start: could not find status log: /var/log/nagios/status.log

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 12:40, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I run nagios 1.0 from the RPM on sourceforge. After my server rebooted due 
> to a hardware fialure I can not get nagios back. If I restart nagios from 
> the init.d script I get:
> 
> # service nagios restart
> Running configuration check...done
> Stopping network monitor: nagios
> /etc/init.d/nagios: line 66: kill: (898) - No such process
> Starting network monitor: nagios
> NAGIOS CRITICAL - could not find status log: /var/log/nagios/status.log
> # cd /var/log/nagios
> # ls -l
> total 28
> drwxr-xr-x    2 nagios   nagios       4096 Mar  9 00:00 archives
> -rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios          0 Mar  8 12:26 comment.log
> -rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios          0 Mar  6 13:49 downtime.log
> -rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios      12328 Mar  9 18:35 nagios.log
> -rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       4488 Mar  9 18:35 status.sav
> 
> Any suggestion to get nagios back up and running again? I tried copying 
> files, touching them, but failed to fix the issue.

look for a lcok file in /var/lock of /var/run (or a ngios subdirectory
thereof).

--
Karl