nagios3-common and nagios3-core : grep: /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg: No such file or directory

[Chris Bainbridge]

Binary package hint: nagios3

# apt-get install nagios3

...

Setting up nagios3-common (3.2.0-4ubuntu2) ...

Adding system-user for nagios

Creating config file /etc/nagios3/conf.d/host-gateway_nagios3.cfg with new version
 * Starting nagios3 monitoring daemon nagios3 grep: /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg: No such file or directory
shift: 236: can't shift that many
 * unable to determine nagios_check_command from /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg!... [fail]

Setting up nagios3-core (3.2.0-4ubuntu2) ...
grep: /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg: No such file or directory
shift: 236: can't shift that many
 * Starting nagios3 monitoring daemon nagios3 grep: /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg: No such file or directory
shift: 236: can't shift that many
 * unable to determine nagios_check_command from /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg!... [fail]

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Was the nagios3 removed (and not purged) before being reinstalled? Has /etc/nagios3/cgi.cfg been deleted by hand?

[Chris Bainbridge (chris-bainbridge)]

No, nagios3 has never been on this system before. I've tested on another clean system and the same error occurs.

You should be able to reproduce this easily:

    apt-get purge nagios*
    apt-get install nagios3-core

nagios3-core expects nagios3-cgi to be setup. You need to add the following line to the nagios3-core section of debian/control:

    Pre-Depends: nagios3-cgi

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

This should be fixed for maverick.

Thanks for the bug report.
chuck

[Etienne Goyer (etienne-goyer-outlands)]

The error seems to be cosmetic, as the service would still start (I have not checked in depth, though). Still, the fix is trivial and really ought to be SRU'ed at some point, IMHO.

[Paul Belanger (pabelanger)]

nagios3 (3.2.0-4ubuntu2.3) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Don't rely on nagios3-cgi in initscript (LP: #615810)

 -- Paul Belanger <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:44:45 -0500