problem with command file. variation on the normal error.

[Tom Welsh]

Yep, 

My nagios restart script stops nagios, stops apache, starts apache then 
starts nagios. 

Thanks 

Tom 

carole verdon writes: 

> Do you think to restart the web server to take into account the 
> modifications? 
> 
> Carole. 
> 
> Tom Welsh wrote: 
> 
>> Hi All, 
>> 
>> I have the following error appearing when I try to "Schedule and
>> immediate check for all services on this host"  
>> 
>>   
>> 
>>> Browser error:
>>>     
>>> 
>> 
>>   
>> 
>>> Error: Could not stat() command file 
>>> '/usr/local/nagios/var/read/nagios.cmd'! 
>>> 
>>> The external command file may be missing, Nagios may not be running, 
>>> and/or Nagios may not be checking external commands. 
>>> 
>>> An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for 
>>> processing.
>>>     
>>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Obviously I thought it was the standard permissions error on the /var/rw
>> directory so I went through the instructions again to set the correct
>> permissions on the external command file. Problem persisted. 
>> 
>> Ok, So next I removed the /var/rw directory recreated it started again.
>> Same problem 
>> 
>> Reinstalled Nagios ran install command-mode, same problem 
>> 
>> I created a new directory called read/, changed the configs to point the
>> external command to this directory, reset up permissions again. Same
>> problem 
>> 
>> Here is my system specs 
>> 
>> I am running Solaris 8
>> Nagios 1.2
>> Plugins 1.3.1 
>> 
>> Compiled with gcc 3.2.2 
>> 
>> Any one seen this one before? I thought it was going to be the Normal no
>> brainer but DUH, no. 
>> 
>> Cheers 
>> 
>> Tom Welsh
>> squareBOX technologies 
>> 
>>  
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