External Commands not working

[Gerard Marcel]

Make sure you have created the rw directory and that it has correct
permission.  double check the cgi.cfg and nagios.cfg files.  external
commands have to be turned on.

GM


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:49:22 -0800, Scott Gwartney <gwartney at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running Nagios v.2.0b1 on Fedora 3.0 Apache 2.0.52. When trying to
> execute external commands from the web interface I get this 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've followed the directions exactly (several times!). Apache is a member of
> Nagiocmd group, in fact I've tried giving full permissions to everyone on
> the '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/ folder and all its files with no success.
> 
> Nothing shows up in the httpd logs. The system message log shows this:
> 
> avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=5446 exe=/usr/local/nagios/sbin/cmd.cgi
> path=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd dev=dm-0 ino=3591465
> scontext=root:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t tcontext=root:object_r:usr_t
> tclass=fifo_file
> 
> TYIA
> 
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