From: Bernd A. <be...@gm...> - 2008-05-30 16:19:49
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Hi! I'm using the 8.04 Server Edition of Ubuntu and Nagios 3.0.1. I've set up Nagios as described in the installation guide, too. The message 'Home directory doesn't exist... assuming "/"' came every time I've started Nagios. So the init script worked. There was only this annoying message. Thanks for your hint with the -m switch. I stopped Nagios, ran "userdel nagios", "useradd -m nagios" and now, when starting Nagios, the message doesn't appear any longer. And Nagios still seems to work :-) Regards Bernd > Hi * > > Using Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop Edition I tried to install Nagios according to > the quick installation guide. As some other people I wasn't able to start > Nagios via the init script because the home directory wasn't created. Reading > the man page I discovered that you have to use the "-m" option to have the > directory created. SuSE seems to be affected, too. I assume that it also > applies to Red Hat/Fedora but I have no access to such systems. > > Wolfgang -- Super-Aktion nur in der GMX Spieleflat: 10 Tage für 1 Euro. Über 180 Spiele downloaden: http://flat.games.gmx.de |