--- config/ndomod.cfg-sample.in.orig	2016-07-29 17:03:04 UTC
+++ config/ndomod.cfg-sample.in
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ output_buffer_items=5000
 # Nagios (re)starts, the NDO NEB module will read the contents of this
 # file and send it to the NDO2DB daemon for processing.
 
-buffer_file=@localstatedir@/ndomod.tmp
+buffer_file=/var/spool/nagios/ndomod.tmp