Getting to Macros from script

[Marc Powell]

I have created a number of tools that work just fine in ~nagios/sbin. There's nothing really special about that directory as opposed to any others that have +ExecCGI specified. A google search for your error message seems to indicate a couple of possibilities --

1) you may be specifying a #! Line in your script (which isn't necessary for php).
2) php isn't installed correctly (check httpd.conf for the required php definitions).

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin, Stanley G [GMG] [mailto:Stanley.G.Martin at mail.sprint.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:15 PM
> To: Marc Powell; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> If I write the old standby Hello World script using PHP, it won't run if I
> put it in the same directory as all the other .cgi scripts.
> 
> Errors from Apache error log
> [Fri Jul 25 12:11:21 2003] [error] (8)Exec format error: exec of
> /usr/local/nagios/sbin/hello.php failed
> [Fri Jul 25 12:11:21 2003] [error] [client 10.65.5.28] Premature end of
> script headers: /usr/local/nagios/sbin/hello.php
> 
> I'm sure this is an Apache problem.  I was just trying to see if anyone
> else had written some custom stuff for Nagios and tried to run it from the
> same sbin directory.  If I don't have any luck soon, I'll try writing it
> in Perl and see if that works.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stanley G. Martin
> System Administrator
> Sprint - EIS3 Customer Care
> Stanley.G.Martin at mail.sprint.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:mpowell at ena.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 8:29 AM
> To: Martin, Stanley G [GMG]; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Getting to Macros from script
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin, Stanley G [GMG] [mailto:Stanley.G.Martin at mail.sprint.com]
> Sent: Fri 7/25/2003 8:12 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc:
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Getting to Macros from script
> 1) The Author defaults to the user logged in.  How do I get to that
> variable?
> Since Nagios uses .htaccess, it's stuffed into the CGI environment
> variable REMOTE_USER by the webserver and accessible by any httpd spawned
> process.
> 
> 2) I can run my script from one of my other websites, but when I drop it
> into the ~nagios/sbin directory, I get an execution failure.  How can I
> get my script to run from under the nagios directory structure?
> This is kind of an odd question since we didn't write your script nor do
> we have any idea of it's requirements. All I can suggest are basic
> troubleshooting ideas : verify permissions are correct, try running it as
> the user your web server runs as, verify paths in your script are sane and
> check you httpd error log for clues.
> 
> --
> Marc


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