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" -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/