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Bug 1291555

Summary: Nagios 4.0.8 won't write pid to predefined pidfile
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Peter Bieringer <pb>
Component: nagiosAssignee: Scott Wilkerson <swilkerson>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: epel7CC: affix, jose.p.oliveira.oss, lemenkov, linux, nb, ondrejj, shawn.starr, s, swilkerson
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Description Peter Bieringer 2015-12-15 06:54:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
No pidfile is written


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nagios-4.0.8-1.el7.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. restart nagios

Actual results:

ll /var/run/nagios/
total 0

No pidfile written (or updated)


Expected results:
pid written to pidfile


Additional info:

grep lock_file /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
lock_file=/var/run/nagios.pid

=> only written in daemon mode...


grep -i pid /usr/lib/systemd/system/nagios.service
PIDFile=/var/run/nagios/nagios.pid

=> this option (cleanup of left-over pidfile) is not used in current case because Type=simple according to systemd manual


ll /var/run/ |grep nagios
drwxr-xr-x  2 nagios   nagios       40 15. Dez 07:31 nagios

=> nagios user should be able to create/write a file into directory


I assume problem is that systemd will start nagios in foreground mode, but lock_file is only written in daemon mode by nagios itself

ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nagios /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg


Afair pidfile was written before major update to version 4
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2015-12-30 02:28:06 UTC 
nagios-4.0.8-2.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2015-eed09b5974
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-01-01 04:21:06 UTC 
nagios-4.0.8-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2015-eed09b5974
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-01-21 04:39:03 UTC 
nagios-4.0.8-2.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.