External Commands not working

[Ludse Verhoeven]

You're right about this being a permissions issue; either make the 
apache-user a member of the nagioscmd-group or alter the group on the 
nagios.cmd-file to be group-owned by the apache-group. Then it should work 
fine.....

Grtz,
      Ludse Verhoeven




John McGowan <mcgowan at lynch2.com> 
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27-04-2005 22:33

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John McGowan wrote: 
No question about this being a permissions issue...  I set the 
/usr/local/nagios/var/rw directory to 777 and it works fine... Obviously i 
don't want to have to do that.  So for some reason httpd either isn't 
executing the cgi script as nobody... or the nagiocmd group that has 
nobody in it isn't working right...
I can get external command to work if I do the following...


[root at gob rw]# chmod 777 .
[root at gob rw]# chmod g+s .
[root at gob rw]# ls -al
total 8
drwxrwsrwx  2 nagios nagiocmd 4096 Apr 27 15:29 .
drwxrwxr-x  4 nagios nagios   4096 Apr 27 15:30 ..
prw-rw--w-  1 nagios nagiocmd    0 Apr 27 15:29 nagios.cmd

Notice I also have to give world write permissions on nagios.cmd...

/John

/John

John McGowan wrote: 


John McGowan wrote: 


Marc Powell wrote: 
 
-----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 11:57 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] External Commands not working

 

[snip]
 
The error I'm seeing  is in the browser...
Everything else looks fine with the exception of the possible need for a 
hard restart of apache.
 
That's a shame, because I did a hard restart and it's still not working...

Should I recompile with some debugging options or something to figure out 
what cmd.cgi is having a problem with?

I just noticed a slight difference between before the Hard reset of apache 
and now... I am getting a different error in the browser... it's not 
complaining about the "stat" failing, it's complaining about not being 
able to open the file.... Still doesn't make sense to me, i've been 
staring at these permissions for a couple days now, and I don't understand 
why it wouldn't work.

Just incase it helps I'm using httpd-2.0.52

/John

 

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Marc


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