permissions issues with nagiosql

[Mike Guthrie]

On 12/13/2011 10:31 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> On 13/12/2011 17:24, Mike Guthrie wrote:
>> On 12/13/2011 10:11 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>>> hey guys im having permissions issues and getting the following message
>>>
>>> Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
>> Take a look at the permissions on the files in the nagios/etc
>> directory.  Apache needs RWX permissions on those files in order to be
>> able to manage them.
>>
>>> i did some googling and game up with
>>> http://www.nagiosql.org/forum/installation-issues/195-permissions.html
>>>
>>> should i have some template config files somehwere? From what I am
>>> seeing i do not have any demo configs showing up anywhere
>>>
> I set the permissions for everythign in that directory to 775 what
> should the user and group be right now they are set to nagios group and user
Some people might have this set differently, but on my system all of the 
nagiosql files are owned by apache.  The apache user is part of the 
nagios group, and the config files are owned by apache:nagios.

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