check_external_commands option

[Sxan]

Update: 
 
I apologize, but I must have just missed seeing it in the log file. You are correct about the 
error with Nagios and the nagios.cmd file. Here is the error in the log...
 
[1121088502] Error: Could not create external command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' as named pipe: (2) -> No suc
h file or directory.  If this file already exists and you are sure that another copy of Nagios is not running, you should del
ete this file.
[1121088502] Bailing out due to errors encountered while trying to open the external command file for reading... (PID=3627)

So is this a common error with an easy fix? I'm going to be googling for the resolution and checking the faq's, but any replies would still be appreciated. Thanks! 

Sxan <sxanrr at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
 
Thanks for the reply, as far as what you suggested, I checked the log and 
there are no errors in there that are outside the scope of the normal notifications
that Nagios gives. Does using the external commands require that it be configured
in more places than just the nagios.cfg? I'm guessing that maybe I'm missing 
some other variable that the external command checking depends on or something. 
Thanks again for the reply and help. 

Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Sxan
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:36 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_external_commands option
> 
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I have a question regarding the check_external_commands option in the
> nagios.cfg
> file. Basically, I tried to schedule some downtime, saw that I needed
to
> have that
> option enabled, so I went into the nagios.cfg file and changed the 0
to a
> 1 for that line
> like it is below:
> 
> check_external_commands=1
> 
> I saved the .cfg and now when I try and restart nagios, it won't
start. I
> just get:
> 
> honda:/usr/local/nagios/etc # sh /etc/init.d/nagios restart
> Running configuration check...done
> Stopping network monitor: nagios
> Starting network monitor: nagios
> PID TTY TIME CMD
> honda:/usr/local/nagios/etc #
> 
> If I run the following
> ..../nagios/etc/../bin/nagios -v nagios.cfg Everything checks out ok
with
> just a couple warnings
> that have been there before. Am I missing something else I should be
> doing? Like perhaps
> specifying somewhere in the configs who has the right to run external
> commands? Thanks.

Did you check nagios.log? Chances are that nagios isn't able to actually
create the command pipe (nagios.cmd) in the path specified by
command_file in nagios.cfg.

--
Marc


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