external commands

[Bishop, Dean]

yeah, permissions could be fine but the file type is wrong.

rm the file /usr/local/netsaint/var/rw/netsaint.cmd
then restart netsaint.  This should create the file again (doing an 'll
/usr/local/netsaint/var/rw' will give you:
prw-rw----	1	netsaint	netsaint	0 Aug 13 16:47
netsaint.cmd
^
note the leading character.  this indicates the type of file (p for pipe)

if it is not created check the permissions on the /usr/local/netsaint/var
and /usr/local/netsaint/var/rw folders.  Also check
/usr/local/netsaint/etc/netsaint.cfg and ensure that:
check_external_commands=1

hth,
dean

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Nichols [mailto:jnichols at pbp.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 4:27 PM
To: Bishop, Dean
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] external commands


It's not? Uh oh. Something is wrong, then.. here's what it has..
netsaint at dumpster:/usr/local/netsaint/var/rw> cat netsaint.cmd
[1029230649] ADD_HOST_COMMENT;cheese;1;jnichols;Test
netsaint at dumpster:/usr/local/netsaint/var/rw>

If I request any other external command, the command will overwrite whatever
is currently in the netsaint.cmd file, but won't actually process it.

I think the permissions are correct..
netsaint at dumpster:/usr/local/netsaint/var/rw> ls -laF
total 4
drwxrwsrwx    2 netsaint nscmd          80 Aug 13 02:16 ./
drwxrwxr-x    4 netsaint netsaint      256 Aug 13 13:26 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 nobody   nscmd          54 Aug 13 02:24 netsaint.cmd
netsaint at dumpster:/usr/local/netsaint/var/rw>

The docs said that the /var/rw directory needed to be owned by
nobody:nscmd..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bishop, Dean" <dean.bishop at tcdsb.org>
To: "'Jonathan Nichols'" <jnichols at pbp.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 11:45 AM
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] external commands


> ?? sitting in netsaint.cmd??
>
> this is not a regular file.  It is created automatically when you start
> Netsaint and it accepts commands FIFO.
>
> it sounds like you are appending a regular file.  Is this accurate or have
i
> misread your e-mail??
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Nichols [mailto:jnichols at pbp.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 2:30 PM
> To: nagios
> Subject: [Nagios-users] external commands
>
>
> Greetings all,
>     I'm actually using Netsaint 0.0.7 still.. question about external
> commands. It's only worked once. I don't get any errors from the web page,
> and it tells me that it was successful, but the command never happens. It
> just sits in the /usr/local/netsaint/var/rw/netsaint.cmd file and never
gets
> processed. I've tried restarting netsaint, and as far as I can tell, the
> permissions are correct because it's able to write the netsaint.cmd file.
>
> Is there anything in particular that I should be looking at? I've checked

> Google but can't find anything different than what I've already tried. :(
>
> Thanks for any assistance..
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>
>
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