Send_nsca problem

[Eric Anderson]

Hello,

I have what I think is a very basic problem but I cannot seem to locate it. I believe it to be a permissions issue.
I'm attempting to use send_nsca to forward received syslog traffic to the Nagios process.

This article describes using using syslog to forward to send_nsca and then to a Nagios server running nsca:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Log-File-Management/Syslog%252Dng-Integration-Tool/details

I'm attempting something similar except with a twist; the basic idea is this:
1. Syslog receives messages from clients.
2. A script parses syslog and sends the info to send_nsca process on the same host.
3. Send_nsca sends to nsca running on this host
4. NSCA forwards to Nagios.

I've successfully got Nagios and NSCA running. At this point I want to test send_nsca with the following command:
send_nsca locahost -c /usr/local/nagios/nsca-2.7.2/sample-config/ < /home/nagios/test

The test file contaings:
localhost<tab>TestMessage<tab>0<tab>This is a test message.<cr>

After running this file, I get this in my /var/log/messages file:
Aug 12 22:16:54 . nsca[25712]: Handling the connection...
Aug 12 22:16:54 . nsca[25712]: SERVICE CHECK -> Host name: 'localhost', Service Description: 'Test Message', Return Code: '0', Output: 'This is a test message.'
Aug 12 22:16:54 . nsca[25712]: Command file '/var/spool/nagios/cmd/nagios.cmd' does not exist, attempt to use alternate dump file '/var/spool/nagios/cmd/nsca.dump' for output
Aug 12 22:16:54 . nsca[25712]: Could not open alternate dump file '/var/spool/nagios/cmd/nsca.dump' for appending
Aug 12 22:16:54 . nsca[25712]: End of connection...

Can anyone suggest where I may be going wrong here?

NSCA.CFG
nsca_user=nagios
nsca_group=nagcmd
nsca_chroot=/var/spool/nagios/cmd
command_file=/var/spool/nagios/cmd/nagios.cmd
alternate_dump_file=/var/spool/nagios/cmd/nsca.dump

NAGIOS.CFG
nagios_user=nagios
nagios_group=nagios
command_file=/var/spool/nagios/cmd/nagios.cmd

If I ls -haltr on /var/spool/nagios/cmd I get the following:
drwxr-xr-x 3 nagios nagios 4.0k 2009-11-10 11:09 ..
prw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagcmd 0 2010-08-12 15:16 nagios.cmd
prw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagcmd 0 2010-08-12 15:25 nsca.dump
Eric Anderson
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