NagiosXI: Download pdf Couldn't create temporary file.

Couldn't create temporary file. Check that the directory permissions for the /temp directory are set to 777

Login as root to the Nagios server and run the following.

chown -R  nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/highcharts/exporting-server/temp








chmod -R  ug+rwx /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/highcharts/exporting-server/temp

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nagios 4.0.8 fails to start with "Error:

nagios 4.0.8 fails to start with "Error: Failed to initialize query handler" (bind() failed: No such file or directory)

qh: Failed to init socket '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh'. bind() failed: No such file or directory

error: Failed to initialize query handler. Aborting


Nagios Core responds me these errors while starting nagios.

Fix : Error itself give us an hint about no directory error, hence leading to failure while starting  the service.

Fix:  To fix this issue I will create the missing directory manually and aligning permissions to it.

• Depending upon your error of missing directory create it.

cybeerkeeda@Linux-Maniac:~ mkdir -p  /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/

• Provide full permission to it.

cybeerkeeda@Linux-Maniac:~ chmod -R 777  /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/

• Restart Nagios again

cybeerkeeda@Linux-Maniac:~ sudo service nagios restart

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