Re: [CentOS] Nagios installation problem

On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Ben McGinnes wrote:

Hello, Has anyone managed a successful installation of Nagios using the RPMForge packages on CentOS 5.5? [....]

The SELinux policies look fine (I tend to ignore instructions to permanently disable SELinux, if I'm not using SELinux then there's no reason not to return to Slackware):

I've had trouble getting Nagios runtime files to work and play well with SELinux. In particular, the pid file, /var/nagios/nagios.pid, is created with a generic var_t type rather than the necessary nagios_var_run_t type, so I've tweaked system policy a bit:

semanage fcontext -a -t nagios_var_run_t "/var/nagios/nagios.pid"