[CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

Wed Nov 14 16:41:06 UTC 2007
Rick Barnes <linux at sitevision.com>

Jason Ross wrote:
> First off  I am a linux / CentOS newbies so go easy on me.
> Just curious if anyone out there is running Nagios on CentOS 4.5.
> I have now installed it on a second server due to issue but the issues
> have come back to haunt me.
> 
> The OS is running on an IBM NetVista. Every thing in both installs is
> identical as are the problems.
> Once I have Nagios up and monitoring every thing hangs. Even a terminal
> will hang before it finally just locks up.
> The only thing that brings it back is a reboot. Even stopping the
> services doesn't work.
> Disk space seems fine and even during the hangs there doesn't seems to
> be anything taking up a tremendous amount of resources.
> After a reboot every thing works fine for several hours.
> Any guesses or suggestions?

I am running on a C4 server here and haven;t experienced any issues with it.

What version do you have installed and did you built it yourself or use
a repo?

I used rpmforge for the deps but built nagios by hand using the docs on
their site.

Rick