Externals Commands

[Martin J. Green]

I can't get external commands to work either (appears it can't write to
the file for some reason), but its so low on my list of priorities I
haven't gotten to it yet.

 

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From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Hari
Sekhon
Sent: 01 August 2006 13:48
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands

 

I am having real difficulty getting external commands to work and don't
full understand what's going wrong, despite having RTFMing several
times.

As an example, I log in to the web interface as nagiosadmin via basic
apache auth successfully as usual. I go to "comments" in the left hand
pane and enter one for a host but when I click submit, I get the error:

"Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command.

Read the section of the documentation that deals with authentication and
authorization in the CGIs for more information.

Return from whence you came" <javascript:window.history.go(-2)> 

As far as I can tell, I have all the perms set right according to the
docs:

cgi.cfg

use_authentication=1
authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin

nagios.cfg

command_file=/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
check_external_commands=1
# NOTE: Setting this value to -1 causes Nagios to check the external
# command file as often as possible.
command_check_interval=-1

ll /var/nagios/ | grep rw/
drwxrws--- 2 nagios apache  4096 Aug  1 13:28 rw/

ll /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
prw-rw---- 1 nagios apache 0 Aug  1 13:28 /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd|

The apache process is run by the apache user, a member of the apache
group, so has full perms to the directory and the pipe file nagios.cmd.
Nagios is run by nagios who is also a member of the apache group.

This all looks as it should be according to the docs as far as I can
see.

What am I missing?


Hari

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