Re: Error : Cannot create directory 'usr/local/nagios': permission denied

[Philip Rowlands]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, address@hidden wrote:

> I am trying to Install nagios 3.0 in Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop edition.
>
> After compliation , when i type " make install "  I get error messege 
> saying that cannot create directory 'usr/local/nagios': permission 
> denied.

Presumably your user account does not have permission to write to that 
directory. This is not a bug; it's how standard unix permissions work.

If you have access to run commands as root on your system, then "make 
install" should succeed. Otherwise you'll need to ask your system 
administrator.


Cheers,
Phil