External Commands not working

[John McGowan]

I'm running FC3, so SELinux is probably the issue?  But What?  Do I need 
to do something else to the configuration to make it work?  Is there 
something else written up on SELinux and how it affects nagios?

I'm running 1.2 and I compiled it myself.  Everything is running very 
smoothly except for external commands...

I could give you all of what you ask for below, but since i'm running 
FC, i probably just need a little more info about how SELinux affects 
nagios.

Thanks,
John

Marc Powell wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>>admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of John McGowan
>>Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:52 AM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] External Commands not working
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>>I just installed the latest stable version of nagios and am becoming
>>familiar with it.  I wanted to enable the web interface's ability to
>>control nagios, so i followed the instructions to enable external
>>commnads.  For some reason the Web application (CGI) is reporting a
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>"can
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>>not stat()" problem with the external command file.  I've checked and
>>double checked the permissions/group setting for that file and the
>>directory containing that file.
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>>Is there anything that might be missing from the documentation to make
>>this work?
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>The documentation is complete with the exception that SELinux is not
>covered.
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>>Is there some common mistake or oversight that I could be
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>experiencing.
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>SElinux restrictions if you're running an OS that has those enabled.
>Does the file exist? Is it on an NFS mount?
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>>nagios and apache have been restarted several times...
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>Good. This would be the most common oversight.
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>For more specific help, please try to provide us with more specific
>information. The exact steps you took to enable external commands,
>nagios version and how it was installed, OS version, directory listings
>showing permissions, group memberships, pertinent nagios.cfg entries,
>etc...
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>Marc
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