Nagios 2.0b1 and CVS

[Luca Corti]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 15:00 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Your permissions on the objects.cache and status.log files and/or the 
> directories leading up to them. I would have thought that was obvious, 
> given the error message you received.


On the working machine:

# ls -l /usr/local/
drwxr-sr-x  8 nagios nagios 192 Dec 17 11:29 nagios
# ls -l /usr/local/nagios/
total 3
drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagios  128 Dec 17 11:02 bin
drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagios  576 Dec 21 11:44 etc
drwxr-sr-x  2 root   nagios 1936 Dec 17 11:29 libexec
drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagios  584 Dec 17 12:14 sbin
drwxrwsr-x  9 nagios nagios  392 Dec 17 12:14 share
drwxrwsr-x  4 nagios nagios  256 Dec 19 16:44 var
# ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/
total 40
drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagios   128 Dec 19 00:00 archives
-rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios   240 Dec 17 12:42 comments.dat
-rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios   241 Dec 17 12:42 downtime.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios  2884 Dec 19 16:44 nagios.log
-rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios 12144 Dec 18 21:38 objects.cache
-rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios 12474 Dec 19 16:44 retention.dat
drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagios    48 Dec 17 11:03 rw
# ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/
total 0


On the nonworking machine:

# ls -l /usr/local/
drwxrwsr-x    8 nagios   nagios        192 Dec 21 15:20 nagios
# ls -l /usr/local/nagios/
total 6
drwxrwsr-x    2 nagios   nagios        128 Dec 21 15:09 bin
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     nagios       1080 Dec 21 15:45 etc
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     nagios       1968 Dec 21 15:14 libexec
drwxrwsr-x    2 nagios   nagios        552 Dec 21 15:09 sbin
drwxrwsr-x    9 nagios   nagios        360 Dec 21 15:14 share
drwxrwsr-x    4 nagios   nagios        224 Dec 21 15:40 var
# ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/
total 453
drwxrwsr-x    2 nagios   nagios         48 Dec 21 15:09 archives
-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios          6 Dec 21 15:40 nagios.lock
-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios        133 Dec 21 15:40 nagios.log
-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios     452651 Dec 21 15:40 objects.cache
-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios          0 Dec 21 15:40 retention.dat
drwxrwsr-x    2 nagios   nagios         80 Dec 21 15:40 rw
# ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/
total 0
prw-rw----    1 nagios   nagios          0 Dec 21 15:40 nagios.cmd


> Then you obviously haven't done it in the exact same way, or it would 
> have worked on both hosts. Perhaps the webserver user is running as a 
> different user on either machine, or you have suexec enabled on one but 
> not the other. In the end, it's with 99.9% certainty a permission issue.

apache runs on both as www-data, nagios on both as nagios. The only
difference I can think of is the prefix /usr/local/nagios-2.0 instead
of /usr/local/nagios on the nonworking host, but I've symlinked it
to /usr/local/nagios.


No ideas...


thanks

Luca




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