nagios.cmd

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

The proper approach to this is:

1) create the group 'nagiocmd' (note that it's not 'nagioscmd')
2) add nagios to the group nagiocmd
3) add your webserver to the group nagiocmd
4) "chown nagios.nagiocmd /usr/local/nagios/var"
5) "chmod 2770 /usr/local/nagios/var"
6) restart nagios

You'll never have to manually set the permissions of rw again.  :)

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradley Dean [mailto:bjdean at unimelb.edu.au]
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 4:45 PM
> To: nagios
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:39:47AM -0800, Ambrose wrote:
> > Be sure to restart both the apache and nagios daemons after 
> setting the 
> > correct permissions.
> > 
> > Also be sure to chmod nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> 
> If the file is not writable nagios will fire off this sort of error.
> 
> Instead of chmod nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagios/var/rw 
> Ambrose might have
> meant: chown nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> 
> To set write permissions use:
> 
> chmod 660 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> or equivalently:
> chmod u+rw,g=rw,o= /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> 
> I've found that this file gets clobbered and recreated with the wrong
> permissions every now and then (despite umasks) and as I've 
> been too lazy
> to track it down I have a line like "chmod 660 
> /usr/local/nagios/var/rw" in
> my crontab running fairly regularly. (Though this way I'm 
> never likely to
> know if I've fixed the problem. :)
> 
> Cheerio,
> 
>  Brad
> 
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