NSCA - Command file does not exist

[Kevin Keane]

Yes, this looks good. Besides, I only just noticed that you did the ls 
-lah * as user nagios, so we now have double confirmation that this 
works. Another question: what happens when you manually feed a command 
into nagios.cmd?

echo "xxx" >>/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

It should basically succeed without any message. If you look in your 
nagios log files, you'll probably see an invalid command "xxx" being 
logged. Finally, you could try stopping nagios, deleting the nagios.cmd 
file if it stayed around, and restarting nagios. It should get 
recreated. This just in case it is somehow "messed up".

Joan Tugores wrote:
> drwxr-xr-x 15 root   root      4,0K abr 29 13:07 /usr
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root   root      4,0K abr 29 13:58 /usr/local
> drwxrwxr-x  9 nagios nagiosgrb 4,0K abr 29 14:16 /usr/local/nagios
> drwxrwxr-x  5 nagios nagiosgrb 4,0K may 11 11:07 /usr/local/nagios/var
> drwxrwxr-x  2 nagios nagiosgrb 4,0K may  8 13:22 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
>
> I think is all ok.
>
> Kevin Keane escribió:
>> How about
>>
>> ls -lahd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw /usr/local/nagios/var 
>> /usr/local/nagios /usr/local /usr
>>
>> They should all at a minimum have X permission for either the nagios 
>> user or the group or for world.
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Joan Tugores wrote:
>>   
>>> [nagios at DCSERVERBD2 rw]$ ls -lah *
>>> prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagiosgrb    0 may  8 13:22 nagios.cmd
>>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagiosgrb 4,0K may 11 09:20 nsca.dump
>>>
>>> seems to be well.
>>>
>>> Kevin Keane escribió:
>>>     
>>>> Does the nsca user or group have access to every single directory along 
>>>> the path? Easy way to try:
>>>>
>>>> su - nagios
>>>> cd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
>>>> ls -lah *
>>>>
>>>> Note: the above won't work if user nagios has /bin/false as a shell. In 
>>>> that case, try
>>>> su -s /bin/bash - nagios
>>>>
>>>> It should list nagios.cmd (and probably some other files)
>>>>
>>>> Joan Tugores wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> I think that not using chroot jail, this is my nsca.cfg:
>>>>>
>>>>> pid_file=/var/run/nsca.pid
>>>>> server_port=5667
>>>>> #server_address=192.168.1.1
>>>>> nsca_user=nagios
>>>>> nsca_group=nagiosgrb
>>>>> #nsca_chroot=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/
>>>>> debug=1
>>>>> command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
>>>>> alternate_dump_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nsca.dump
>>>>> aggregate_writes=0
>>>>> append_to_file=0
>>>>> max_packet_age=30
>>>>> #password=
>>>>> decryption_method=1
>>>>>
>>>>> Kevin Keane escribió:
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>>>> Does nsca run in a chroot jail? I'm not sure if it can do that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If that's the case, nsca may think that /usr/local/nagios is really the 
>>>>>> root of the file system, and anything above that directory is 
>>>>>> essentially hidden. In that case, you'd have to change the nsca.cfg 
>>>>>> configuration to use /var/rw/nagios.cmd (or strip out whatever the root 
>>>>>> of the chroot jail is).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Joan Tugores wrote:
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>           
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I send a packet to ncsa server this not processed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In /var/log/messages:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' does not exist,attempting to use alternate dump file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nsca.dump' for output
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But nagios.cmd exists and the permissions are good.
>>>>>>> prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagiosgrb    0 may  5 09:59 nagios.cmd
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Joan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>>>         
>>>>>>>             
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> -- 
>>>     
>>
>>
>>   
>
> -- 


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