This is incorrect:
nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg

You should process the nagios.cfg file instead.
nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

The error is telling you that you are processing the wrong file.

[root@localhost bin]# ./nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg
Nagios Core 3.3.1
…….
Reading configuration data…
Error in configuration file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg’ – Line 15 (UNKNOWN VARIABLE)
Error processing main config file!

Line 15 is main_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

When I check this file no errors found :S

thanks Richard
r.tilman@ymail.com

touch /var/www/html/index.html

That will stop that error.

I can login to nagios but if I click on hosts I get:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration …….

In the Var log I get:
Feb 4 20:12:36 richard nagios: SERVICE ALERT: localhost;HTTP;WARNING;SOFT;1;HTTP WARNING: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden – 5237 bytes in 0.009 second response time

So i’m getting close I think,

In the presentation you mention NagiosVI if i’m right, is that recommended for a dummy user

Thanks
Richard

Here is the Department of Labor’s Six Point Test for determining whether an unpaid internship is legal. These apply to a for-profit organization:

1. The internship, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to training which would be given in an educational environment;
2. The internship experience is for the benefit of the intern;
3. The intern does not displace regular employees, but works under close supervision of existing staff;
4. The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern; and on occasion its operations may actually be impeded;
5. The intern is not necessarily entitled to a job at the conclusion of the internship; and
6. The employer and the intern understand that the intern is not entitled to wages for the time spent in the internship.

I agree with you that based on item 4, an employer normally must pay an intern at least minimum wage. However, minimum wage is far lower than many companies such as GM pay their full-time employees, so the company would still save money by utilizing interns for some of the work. The interns would gain valuable experience AND resume bullets from the work. There is a simple way that a company could get around paying the volunteers: build a non-profit sister company, and have the volunteers volunteer to make products for this sister company. Non-profits CAN have unpaid interns. The non-profit could then donate the products to the for-profit. This too is legal, but I believe that the non-profit would have to claim the donations as taxable income.

I understand why the Labor Law is in place: to protect interns. However, I think that the Department of Labor SHOULD change the law as follows.
An unpaid intern should be allowed in a for-profit company as long as the following conditions are met:

1. The unpaid intern can come in/leave work at any time that they wish, or they can choose not to come in work at all on any given day.
2. The unpaid intern intern must abide by any workplace-related laws (e.g. safety regulations), and the intern must be provided any equipment needed to comply with those laws free of charge (e.g. safety glasses, flashlight etc.).
3. The unpaid intern volunteers his or her time and labor completely of their own free will, without coercion of any kind.
4. The unpaid intern can quit the job at any time, without any fear of retribution.
5. The company can terminate the intern and/or take the appropriate legal action against the intern if at any time that they feel that the intern presents some kind of internal risk to the company (e.g. stealing the company’s intellectual property and selling it to a competitor).

This set of rules or something similar would help to protect both the company and the unpaid intern. Basically, what I am advocating is reforming the existing law, and implementing a system similar to this one to make the United States more competitive.

Thanks again for the comment!