Tag Archives: Nagios

Installing NRPE on Red hat 5

Posted on 09/11/2010 by Tor Henning Ueland

Red Hat does not natively support NRPE/Nagios with the default package manager. Luckily, DAG can save the day Simply add the mirror spesified in the link above to your server and you get the ability to add the NRPE or other Nagios … Continue reading →

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Failed to obtain lock on file /var/run/nagios.pid: Permission denied

Posted on 30/06/2010 by Tor Henning Ueland

This error is caused by Nagios not having access to the folder where it should save it`s PID file. You can change the path for the PID file (and then also fixing the issue) by editing your nagios.conf (usually /etc/nagios/nagios.conf). … Continue reading →

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