Externals Commands

[Justin Craig]

so obviously I RTFM or I wouldn't have got this far.  One part that I did
have questions of was the .htaccess creation, as the documentation I read
only provided  information for setting up users via htpasswd -c and changing
your authorization functionality in the CGI's to 1.

So I did a find / -name *.htaccess* and that file doesn't exist.  Sounds
like I need one?

Sorry, there isn't anything in my /var/www/cgi-bin directory

Is there something missed here?


On 8/1/06, Deborah Martin <Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com> wrote:
>
>  can you forward the contents of the .htaccess file that resides in the
> cgi-bin directory ? and a listing of the rest of the directory including the
> permissions
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Justin Craig [mailto:jrcraig.email at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 01 August 2006 14:46
> *To:* Deborah Martin
> *Cc:* Hari Sekhon; Martin J. Green; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands
>
> i'm logged in as nagiosadmin and i have that username in all my cgi's.  I
> have the sameissue, can't schedule downtime or issue external commands with
> the same error.  I'm running nagios 2.4
>
>
> On 8/1/06, Deborah Martin <Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com> wrote:
> >
> >  look at your /usr/local/nagios/sbin directory and check a) file
> > permissions are correct and also whether your .htaccess authrization file is
> > present.
> > This error is generally caused by not correctly using .htaccess and also
> > not configuring apache properly - check your httpd.conf is correctly
> > configured
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* Hari Sekhon [mailto: hpsekhon at googlemail.com]
> > *Sent:* 01 August 2006 14:14
> > *To:* Martin J. Green
> > *Cc:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands
> >
> > Martin J. Green wrote:
> >
> >  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.
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net<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"
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > I think quite a lot of people have trouble with this but a lot give up
> > or are satisfied that the main bit is working and don't bother with this...
> >
> > does anybody have this working and if so could you post your configs so
> > I can see anything you have different to me?
> >
> > are external commands generally broken or is there something missing in
> > the docs/our configs/our brains?
> >
> > I'm using Version 1.4.1
> >
> > Hari
> >
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