Issue w/External Commands

[Marc Powell]

I did ;) I realized what I did after I got into the office <G>. I'm an old-school linux user who's not quite up to speed on all these new-fangled commands when 'grep <whatever> /etc/group' has been my mainstay =)

I still think the advice to restart apache is valid though. Assuming that ~nagios is at least 644 and not 600, that should do it.

Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:34 AM
> To: Marc Powell; Daniel Jimenez; Nagios users list
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands
> 
> Marc, have another coffee and take another look at Daniel's output.  :)
> 
> He used the 'groups' command which identifies which groups a given
> username
> belongs to.  Looks like both apache and nagios belong to the nagiocmd
> group
> (aside from their own groups).
> 
> Daniel, all I can suggest at this point is to start checking logfiles:
> for
> Apache, /var/log/messages, the Nagios logfiles.  You might also want to
> try
> doing an strace.
> 
> This might be overkill, but it seems Daniel has done The Right Things
> otherwise.
> 
> Although... Daniel, could you indulge us, and competely shutdown both
> nagios
> and apache, do a ps to confirm that both are down (and "pkill -9" them if
> they aren't), then restart them and see if that doesn't help...?
> 
> Food for thought.
> 
> jc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc Powell [mailto:mpowell at ena.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:52 AM
> > To: Daniel Jimenez; Nagios users list
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands
> >
> >
> > Sorry for the HTML previously. I seldom send from this client...
> >
> > You've got it backwards. You should have a group called
> > nagioscmd with nagios and apache being members:
> >
> > nagioscmd:x:<gid>:nagios,apache
> >
> > Make that modification, restart apache and you should be good to go.
> >
> > --
> > Marc
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Jimenez [mailto:DanielJ at avatar-cs.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 6:25 AM
> > To: 'Rasmus Plewe'; Nagios users list
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands
> >
> > drwxrwS---    2 nagios   nagiocmd     4096 Feb 18 00:30
> > /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> > root       834     1  0 00:30 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> > apache     883   834  0 00:30 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> > apache     884   834  0 00:30 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> > apache     885   834  0 00:30 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> > apache     886   834  0 00:30 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> > apache     887   834  0 00:30 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> > apache     888   834  0 00:30 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> > apache     889   834  0 00:30 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> > apache     890   834  0 00:30 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> > [root at johnny5 var]# groups apache
> > apache : apache nagiocmd
> > [root at johnny5 var]# groups nagios
> > nagios : nagios nagiocmd
> > Pretty standard RH8 install. Httpd installed during OS build.
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rasmus Plewe [mailto:rplewe at hpce.nec.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:00 AM
> > To: Nagios users list
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:04:36AM -0600, Daniel Jimenez wrote:
> > >    On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Daniel Jimenez wrote:
> > >    >
> > >    > My problem is that whenever I go to add host/service
> > comments I'm
> > >    > returned w/
> > >    >
> > >    > Error: Could not stat() command file
> > >    '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'!
> > >    >
> > >    > Anyone have any insight?
> > >    >
> > >    > Daniel Jimenez
> > >    -----Original Message-----
> > >    From: Subhendu Ghosh [[1]mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
> > >    Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:37 PM
> > >    To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> > >    Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands
> > >
> > >
> http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=58&expand=false&showdesc=tru
> e
> >
> >    Subhendu,
> >
> >    These are actually the steps I followed to set this up. I've gone
> over
> >    the steps at least twenty times and find no mistakes.
> >
> >    Daniel
> 
> Excuse my disbelief, but with unixoide operating systems I still think
> that if you do something right, it will work.
> Could you please post the output of:
> ls -ld /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> ps -ef | grep httpd
> grep <user obtained from previous command> /etc/group
> 
> Please try to avoid mailing in HTML. At least on this list.
> 
> Rasmus
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