Problems Starting Nagios

[Morris, Patrick]

> I'm still getting an error, even though i have the permissions:
> 
> drwxrwxrwx  4 nagios nagios   4096 2007-06-13 16:17 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 nagios nagios   4096 2007-05-10 11:26 ..
> drwxrwxr-x  2 nagios nagios   4096 2007-05-10 11:24 archives
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios    238 2007-06-12 17:40 comments.dat
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios    239 2007-06-12 17:40 downtime.dat
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios      0 2007-06-13 16:17 nagios.lock
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 nagios nagios  14268 2007-06-13 16:56 
> nagios.log -rwxrwxrwx  1 nagios nagios 118664 2007-06-13 
> 16:56 objects.cache
> -rw-------  1 nagios nagios 162982 2007-06-13 16:17 retention.dat
> drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagios   4096 2007-06-13 12:08 rw
> 
> root at server:/var/log# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios 
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> 
> Nagios 2.7
> Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org) 
> Last Modified: 01-19-2007
> License: GPL
> 
> Warning: Could not get passwd entry for 'nagiosadmin'
> Nagios 2.7 starting... (PID=13453)
> Error: Could not create external command file 
> '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' as named pipe: (13) -> 
> Permission denied.  If this file already exists and you are 
> sure that another copy of Nagios is not running, you should 
> delete this file.
> Bailing out due to errors encountered while trying to 
> initialize the external command file... (PID=13453)

It looks like you may have nagios running as "nagiosadmin", but all the
files are owned by "nagios". The rw directory is not writeable by the
"nagiosadmin" user unless it happens to be a member of the "nagios"
group.

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