2.2. Create the Nagios Directories

Make the following Nagios directories:

mkdir /var/nagios /var/nagios/rw /var/log/nagios /var/log/nagios/spool/checkresults /var/run/nagios

Change ownership on those directories to the Nagios user:

chown -R nagios:nagios /var/nagios /var/nagios/rw /var/log/nagios /var/log/nagios/spool/checkresults /var/run/nagios