external commands

[Chris Ditri]

NEVERMIND!!!!!!!!!


I figured it out..
Sorry!


I wasn't thinking, the doc said: "Make sure the group we created has read and 
write permissions on the directory."


Well... that is 100% true... but -- you also need the EXECUTE permission 
because it is a directory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  DUH!  That is implied, I just 
wasn't thinking.


The other thing I did was go into nagios.cfg and changed nagios_group= to 
nagios_group=nagiocmd instead of nagios_group=nagios (which was the default).


That's all.


Sorry!  Hopefully it at least will helpsomeone in the future.



Chris



> Hi.
>

> I am having difficulty with getting external commands working.  I swear I
> have done everything it says to in the docs.  This is what I have done:
>
>

> I edited nagios.cfg and changed or added the following variables:
>       check_external_commands=1
>       command_check_interval=-1
>       command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
>

> I had created a user named nagios at time of installation.
> I created a group called nagiocmd.
> I made sure that the user nagios was a member of the nagiocmd group:
>       usermod -G nagiocmd nagios
> I made sure that the web-user was also a member of this group (in this case
> that is user: apache):
>       usermod -G nagiocmd apache
> Just to CMA, I made the nobody user a member:
>       usermod -G nagiocmd nobody
> The directory /usr/local/nagios/var/rw already existed from install
> I changed the ownership of that directory for user and group:
>       chown nagios.nagiocmd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> I changed the perms on that directory:
>       chmod u+rwx /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
>       chmod g+rw /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
>       chmod g+s /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> I restarted both nagios and apache
>

> Everytime I try to issue an external command, for example disable
> notifications, I get the error:
>

>       Error: Could not stat() command file
> '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'!
>

>       The external command file may be missing, Nagios may not be running,
> and/or Nagios may not be checking external commands.
>

>       An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for 
processing.
>

>                               Return from whence you came
>
>

> What the heck am I missing?  I have done this on netsaint with no problems
> what so ever, and it doesn't want to work here.
>

> I did an ls -l on /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd and got this:
>               prw-rw----    1 nagios   nagiocmd        0 Sep  6 10:28 
nagios.cmd
> Is that normal?
>

> One interesting thing I found was that when I do an ls -ld on
> /usr/local/nagios/var/rw I get this:
>

>       drwxrwS---    2 nagios   nagiocmd     4096 Sep  6 10:28
>       /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> I noticed the capital "S"... I don't ever rembmer that being capitol...
> could that be it?  I don't know why it is capitalized, it never was before
> when I excuted that command (I don't think).  I tried as well with chmod
> 2760 rw as well, same deal.  I even set all perms to 000, and started over,
> still the same.
>

> I have read the docs a half dozen times here, and at least tripple checked
> everything.... What the heck am I missing?
>

> Thank you!
>
>

> Chris
>
>
>
>
>

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