/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

[Garrett, Matt M SITI-ITDIEEE]

Kreig

The permissions on this file should be 
prw-rw----   1 nagios   nagios         0 Jun 18 10:30 /local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

Your passive commands should be running either as user nagios or as group nagios
Or if you are feeling brave root

You should not allow any body to be able to write to this file.
I know Ethan has some error checking on this file but you should not rely on this.
As users could try and crash nagios or DOS attacks etc.

We got around the problem by using nsca , running a check command on the client as root
due to its very nature, and then sending the info back to nsca running as nagios
Works very well, for us.

Hope this help's

Matt


Matthew Garrett
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kreig Dubose [mailto:Kreig.Dubose at webex.com]
> Sent: 18 June 2003 14:04
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
> 
> 
> I'm having some considerable difficulties with this file.  Basically
> everytime I restart nagios it's permissions get reset and 
> host comments and
> passive info quit working.   The only way I've found to make 
> it work is by
> changing perms to 777 (Which I don't like doing anyways).  Am 
> I missing
> something here ?
> 
> prwxrwxrwt    1 nagios   nagios          0 Jun 18 12:59 nagios.cmd
> 
> Nagios 1.0
> 2.4.7-10smp #1 SMP
> 
> 
> TIA,
> Kreig
> 
> 
> 
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