Dear forum,

I have been facing an issue with crontab in RHEL-7. I tried to install nagios XI in RHEL-7 environment. During installation it was failed due to some crontab issue(which says "path too long".).
I have no idea about this. I just typed crontab in session, it prints "PATH TOO LONG".

If anyone came across such issue or knows how to resolve, Please help me.

Thanks,
Sangeetha.

How did you try to install Nagois? Yum, .tgz or some other method?

What is the exact error message?

Are you trying to do the install as a user or say root?

Read the "Question Guidelines" and "How to ask a smart question" links in my posting signature. All we know from what you've said is:

• You're using RHEL7
• You tried to install Nagios
• You got "some crontab issue"

What, exactly, do you think we'll be able to tell you from that? Also, you're using RHEL 7...are you PAYING FOR RHEL??? as you should be? Have you contacted RHEL support? There are many how-to guides you can easily find/follow by putting "how to install nagios on rhel 7" into Google. Have you looked at any of them, and if so, which are you following?

-I am installing Nagios XI in an offline environment. Downloaded the tarball from https://repo.nagios.com/ for RHEL7. Pre-requisites are in place for installation.

-The Error Message is nothing but
"path too long"
This error comes when the installation script executes "crontab -u apache nagiosxi/crontab.apache" command.

-I am trying to Install nagios as a root user.

Thanks

More information.


Nagios XI is a paid for version, correct? If you have paid for it, why aren't asking Nagios for support?

Also its designed for network monitoring, why are you installing this in an offline environment?

I've also found two URLs that walk thru the install process, have you worked thru either of these?

http://sharadchhetri.com/2014/08/29/...ntos-7-rhel-7/

https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...rs-on-centos-7

Do you have Apache installed? Is it running? Is it the correct version for Nagios?

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As of now we are using a 60 day trial version. SO no support from nagios and also for offline installation, they dont support.

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/...nvironment.pdf

Steps to install nagios in offline is just to run the fullinstall script in the tar ball, which takes care of apache, crontab and all other components required. Apache server is running in the server.

In a point where it has to add the crontab entries, it fails.

Nagios Version : 5.2.0 (nagiosxi-5-2.0.el7.x86_64.tar.gz)

It seems crontab not working. In the error it clearly says- Crontab failed: Path too long

I have installed Nagios XI 5.2.0 in RHEL 6, with same steps followed. It works fine, that's also Offline environment.

Thanks.

Not sure then.

Would advise remove Nagios, and reinstall and set a terminal to

Also make sure cron and apache are running and/or starting upon boot

Also check with Red Hat's website and their Community, someone might have an answer there.

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Where, exactly, did you get that information from?? Nagios most certainly DOES support offline environment, and that document even tells you how to do it. It says that the DOCUMENTATION is in beta..nothing else. Further, you DO get support during your trial...that is because they want you to PURCHASE their software, and you won't unless it can be installed and run. So call Nagios.
Yes...and it will only do these things, if you are paying for RHEL, since it cannot resolve any dependencies or download packages otherwise. From the Nagios documentation:
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Ok, so again, as you've been asked before....HAVE YOU CONTACTED RED HAT SUPPORT??? You say you're using RHEL 6 and RHEL 7...both of which are commercial, pay-for distributions. They can certainly help you diagnose a problem with crontab, since that's an integral part of the system OS.

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