Trying to setup a separate directory to store my nagios configuration files and when I attempt to validate the configuration I get the below error.
Error: Could not open config directory '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/corp/contacts.cfg' for reading.
I believe the permissions are correct and I have selinux in permissive mode.
[root@NAGSRV objects]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
Nagios Core 4.4.6
Copyright (c) 2009-present Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
Last Modified: 2020-04-28
License: GPL
Website: https://www.nagios.org
Reading configuration data...
Read main config file okay...
Error: Could not open config directory '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/corp/contacts.cfg' for reading.
Error: Invalid max_check_attempts value for host 'localhost'
Error: Could not register host (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/localhost.cfg', starting on line 21)
Error processing object config files!
***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files...
Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
directives and data definitions. If you are upgrading from a previous
version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
may have been removed or modified in this version. Make sure to read
the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.
Permissions:
[root@NAGSRV objects]# ls -ld *
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 6747 Dec 7 21:06 commands.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 1794 Dec 7 21:35 contacts.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 4777 Dec 7 21:06 localhost.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 3001 Dec 7 21:06 printer.cfg
drwxr-xr-x. 2 nagios nagcmd 99 Dec 9 10:43 corp
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 3484 Dec 7 21:06 switch.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 12533 Dec 7 21:06 templates.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 3512 Dec 7 21:06 timeperiods.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 7630 Dec 9 10:17 windows.cfg
[root@NAGSRV objects]# ls -ld ./corp/*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 1245 Dec 9 10:43 ./corp/contacts.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 1124 Dec 9 10:39 ./corp/hostgroups.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 3809 Dec 9 10:45 ./corp/hosts.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagcmd 10967 Dec 9 10:41 ./corp/hosts-service-template.cfg
Groups:
[root@NAGSRV objects]# cat /etc/group | grep nag
nagios:x:1000:
nagcmd:x:1001:apache,nagios
Selinux:
[root@NAGSRV objects]# getenforce
Permissive
nagios.cfg:
# NAGIOS USER
# This determines the effective user that Nagios should run as.
# You can either supply a username or a UID.
nagios_user=nagios
# NAGIOS GROUP
# This determines the effective group that Nagios should run as.
# You can either supply a group name or a GID.
nagios_group=nagcmd
If I edit the nagios.cfg and remove my directory from the cfg_dir= I am able to validate.
