Schedule An Immediate Check - I have rtfm and stfw no help

[Michael W. Oliver]

more information...

# ls /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
total 2
drwxrwS---  2 nagios  nagiocmd  512 Feb  5 15:11 ./
drwxrwxr-x  4 nagios  nagios    512 Feb  7 12:41 ../
prw-rw----  1 nagios  nagiocmd    0 Feb  5 15:11 nagios.cmd|

# grep nagiocmd /etc/group
nagiocmd:*:55554:nagios,nobody

Now, I see in the 'SOLVED' reply that the 'nagios.cmd' file was created by
the Nagios process with nagios:nagios ownership, but mine isn't created that
way.  As you can see above, my nagios.cmd file is created with
nagios:nagiocmd ownership.  You can also see that 'nobody' is part of the
'nagiocmd' group, which _should_ give 'nobody' rw access to the nagios.cmd
file.  Even so, I still receive that error when trying to execute a command
from the browser.  BAH!

In addition, in the 'SOLVED' reply, it looks like the user 'nobody' was
added to the 'nagios' group, effectively eliminating the need for the
'nagiocmd' group.  Isn't this insecure, putting the 'nobody' user in the
'nagios' group, effectively giving that user permission to everything that
Nagios has permission to?  I was under the impression that the whole purpose
of creating the new group was to limit the access of the 'nobody' user.

What am I missing?  Thanks!

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael W. Oliver" <michael at gargantuan.com>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule An Immediate Check - I have rtfm and
stfw no help


I am receiving the exact same error while trying this on my FreeBSD server.
I followed the FAQ instructions to the letter, and all permissions are just
as they should be, and 'nobody' is in the 'nagiocmd' group.

Still no joy...

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           (via IPv4 and IPv6) |     - President Thomas Jefferson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Armin Irger" <irger at fh-rosenheim.de>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:04 AM
Subject: [Nagios-users] Schedule An Immediate Check - I have rtfm and stfw
no help


Hi,
i using debian woody 3.0r1 and compiled nagios from the source. Nagios
is "jailed" in /opt/nagios-1.0 and accessing over a link /opt/nagios.

nagios.cfg settings:

   check_external_commands=1
   command_check_interval=-1
   command_file=/opt/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

I setup the nagios.cmd file how it be descripted in the commandfile.html
/usr/sbin/groupadd nagiocmd
/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagiocmd nagios
/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagiocmd nobody
mkdir /opt/nagios/var/rw
chown nagios.nagiocmd /opt/nagios/var/rw
chmod u+rwx /opt/nagios/var/rw
chmod g+rw /opt/nagios/var/rw
chmod g+s /opt/nagios/var/rw

The ls -l /opt/nagioss/var/ looks like
drwxrwSr--    2 nagios   nagiocmd     4096 Feb  7 15:10 rw


cgi.cfg settings:
authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin,guest
authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin


I'am logged in as nagiosadmin and when i try to start a "Schedule an
immediate check of all services on this host" from the Host Command's i
get this error back after i commit the command.

Error: Could not stat() command file '/opt/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.


Greetings
Armin







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