Permission denied for /bin/mail
Marc Powell
mpowell at ena.com
Fri Sep 26 16:28:47 CEST 2003
'man chmod'
Then after you've read that, 'chmod 775 /bin/mail' or add nagios to the
mail group, whichever works best in your environment and meets your
security policies.
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Marc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. F. [mailto:visigoth at home.nl]
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:12 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Hi, I'm getting the following errors when I start Nagios:
>
> -----
> sh: line 1: /bin/mail: Permission denied
>
> /bin/mail -s "Host DOWN alert for sv09!" visigoth at home.nl" resulted in
a
> return code of 126. Make sure the script or binary you are trying to
> execute actually exists...
> -----
>
> /bin/mail is: -rwxrwx--- 1 bin mail 83905 Jun 23 2002
> /bin/mail*
> I asume I need to give user 'nagios' permission to execute that
binary?
> How do I do that?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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