error in nagios.cmd for update

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Christian Souza wrote:

> I have been searching anything about this error, but i can't found.
>
> When I tried do add a new coment for a service (as exemple), i receive the
> follow:
>
>
> Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for
> update!
>
>
> The permissions on the external command file and/or directory may be
> incorrect. Read the FAQs on how to setup proper permissions.
>
>
> An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for processing.
>
>
> was verified the configuration, bellow:
>
> #more nagios.cfg |grep check_ext
> check_external_commands=1
>
>
> #ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var
> drwxrwxr-x  2 nagios nagios  4096 Feb 11 00:00 archives
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios     0 Feb 11 12:59 comment.log
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios     0 Feb 11 12:59 downtime.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root       5 Feb 11 12:59 nagios.lock
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios 33512 Feb 11 16:51 nagios.log
> drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagios  4096 Feb 11 12:59 rw
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios 13248 Feb 11 16:52 status.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios  9924 Feb 11 15:59 status.sav
>
>

Is the web server a member of the "nagios" group?  otherwise it does not 
have write perms


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-sg


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