External Commands not working SOLVED

[John McGowan]

Marc Powell wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>>admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of John McGowan
>>Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:59 PM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] External Commands not working SOLVED
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>>Found the Problem!
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>>The default apache httpd.conf file has the Users and groups set like
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>this
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>>User nobody
>>Group #-1
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>What distro are you using? I haven't seen that before.
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it's version 2.0.52 configured and compiled myself on FC3
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-mods-shared=all

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>>Not sure what that group line means, but I think i can guess, because
>>when i change it to
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>>User nobody
>>Group nobody
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>>All was well.
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>It determines what group apache runs as. I would presume that #-1 puts
>it in no groups.
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Right, I know what the Group directive was for, but I've never seen the 
#-1 value.  I assumed it was set to nobody since this was a fresh apache 
installation

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>>Thanks for help from everybody, especially Marc
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>No problem. I'm glad you figured it out.
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>>I'll have to go back and see if I missed something in the docs that
>>warns about this, or if there is a good place to add something to that
>>effect.
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>I've not seen anything about it and I'm pretty familiar with the
>documentation. A FAQ entry would be good probably --
>http://www.nagios.org/faqs/addfaq.php
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>Marc
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