problems with nagios.cmd and apache 2.0.5 & above

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Drew Cullis wrote:

> Greetings all;
> I am in the process of upgrading our development server along with Nagios and 
> am running into  a problem getting nagios to work with Apache.  I am running 
> Red Hat Enterprise Server
> which has Apache 2.0.52 by default. I found this post from last year but it 
> doesn't look like there was resolution to his problem, which is the same as 
> mine.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=10405076
>
> For your dining and dancing pleasure, here is the error that is generated 
> when you try to run an external command.
>
> 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
>
> Nagios does work like a charm on my workstation running Apache 2.0.46, no 
> issues whatsoever straight out of the box. It looks like the issue is with 
> Apache 2.0.5 and above.
> Has anyone run into this problem also and found a solution? Here are the 
> pertinent details.
>
> RH ES4
> Apache 2.0.52
> Nagios 2.0b4
> Nagios  Plugins 1.4
>
> Thanks for the help...
>
> -Drew

Assuming Nagios is running and it created the named pipe...

Other than Apache - do you have SELinux enabled?  the external command 
would be running as apache user and have to write to the pipe you may have 
to apply http context to the file...

-- 
-sg


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