External Commands

[Marc Powell]

Have you created the 'rw' directory with the proper permissions and
restarted nagios?

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/commandfile.html

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Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Hasenjager [mailto:phasenjager at fzacpa.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 10:04 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to nagios.  Everything is working properly except, when I try
> to do anything that requires an external command it gives me the
> following 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.
> - - - - -
> 
> I have enabled external commands in nagios.cfg.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Patrick Hasenjager
> Technical Support Specialist
> Frankel, Zacharia, Arnold, Nissen, Stamp & Reinsch, LLC
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