[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#288914: marked as done (nagios-text: File /var/log/nagios/status.log is missing --> Error: Could not read host and service status information!)

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Subject: nagios-text: File /var/log/nagios/status.log is missing --> Error:
	Could not read host and service status information!
From: Tobias Krais <krais@bats.ch>
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Package: nagios-text
Version: 2:1.3-0+pre6

When I install nagios and view it in my webbrowser I always get the
following failure message when I click on a link under Monitoring in the
navigation:
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Whoops!
Error: Could not read host and service status information!

The most common cause of this error message (especially for new users),
is the fact that Nagios is not actually running. If Nagios is indeed not
running, this is a normal error message. It simply indicates that the
CGIs could not obtain the current status of hosts and services that are
being monitored. If you've just installed things, make sure you read the
documentation on starting Nagios.

Some other things you should check in order to resolve this error
include:

     1. Check the Nagios log file for messages relating to startup or
        status data errors.
     2. Always verify configuration options using the -v command-line
        option before starting or restarting Nagios!
     3. Make sure you've compiled the main program and the CGIs to use
        the same status data storage options (i.e. text file or
        database). If the main program is storing status data in a text
        file and the CGIs are trying to read status data from a
        database, you'll have problems.

Make sure you read the documentation on installing, configuring and
running Nagios thoroughly before continuing. If all else fails, try
sending a message to one of the mailing lists. More information can be
found at http://www.nagios.org.
----

After I did a:
touch /var/log/nagios/status.log
everything worked out fine.

I suggest adding the missing status.log file to the package.

Greetings, Tobias


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Source: nagios
Source-Version: 2:1.3-cvs.20050116-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
nagios, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

nagios-common_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_all.deb
  to pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-common_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_all.deb
nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_i386.deb
nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_i386.deb
nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/n/nagios/nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_i386.deb
nagios_1.3-cvs.20050116-3.diff.gz
  to pool/main/n/nagios/nagios_1.3-cvs.20050116-3.diff.gz
nagios_1.3-cvs.20050116-3.dsc
  to pool/main/n/nagios/nagios_1.3-cvs.20050116-3.dsc



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 288914@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:09:43 +0000
Source: nagios
Binary: nagios-pgsql nagios-text nagios-mysql nagios-common
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 2:1.3-cvs.20050116-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Nagios Maintainer Group <pkg-nagios-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sean Finney <seanius@debian.org>
Description: 
 nagios-common - A host/service/network monitoring and management system
 nagios-mysql - A host/service/network monitoring and management system
 nagios-pgsql - A host/service/network monitoring and management system
 nagios-text - A host/service/network monitoring and management system
Closes: 260914 282848 288914 290243 292293 295345
Changes: 
 nagios (2:1.3-cvs.20050116-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Sean Finney:
     - finally a fix for the absolute hrefs in side.html.  thanks to
       Erik Rossen <rossen@prolibre.com> reporting this bug 203 days
       ago (closes: #260914).
     - README.pgsql already contains clarifications on the conf file
       defaults for connecting to RDBMSes.  I updated README.mysql to be
       more clear on this as well thanks to olaf for pointing out
       the discrepancy a while back (closes: #282848).
     - change permissions of update-nagios output to be readable by
       group www-data, as it broke non-setuid cgi scripts.  thanks
       to Joergen Haegg <jorgen.hagg@axis.com> for finding this
       problem (closes: #292293).
     - mkdir /etc/$apache/conf.d, not /etc/$apache/$conf in postinst.
       d'oh.  actually, we shouldn't make that director at all in the
       postscript, but list it as a directory in nagios-common.dirs.
       Thanks to Pierre (didn't get his last name and he sent mail as root)
       for this one (closes: #295345).
     - make absolutely sure that /var/log/nagios/status.log is present
       on the filesystem for nagios-text.  thanks to
       Tobias Krais <krais@bats.ch> for pointing this out (closes: #288914).
     - clarification in the postinst message for when someone chooses
       manual/no configuration of apache and htpasswd doesn't exist.
       thanks to Jamie Wilkinson <jamie@anchor.net.au> (closes: #290243).
     - added checks to prevent dpkg-statoverride from being called on
       files already in the overrides database, and also removing files not
       in the database.
Files: 
 ca70595817711b0a81fc4176b7fe026d 1021 net optional nagios_1.3-cvs.20050116-3.dsc
 fce17cc1c14a3c5b856236d187a6dfe5 76798 net optional nagios_1.3-cvs.20050116-3.diff.gz
 e7362f4a21983e32e1953c0d85c16ed4 901332 net optional nagios-text_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_i386.deb
 2c137390cdfbf2b660f8c90eb61a142a 906498 net optional nagios-mysql_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_i386.deb
 5e6b95df34652eb8f52100df3556ecac 917010 net optional nagios-pgsql_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_i386.deb
 45ab52375dec0e1cca1050aa3d170f5c 1215238 net optional nagios-common_1.3-cvs.20050116-3_all.deb

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