enabling external commands

[Yong Lee]

K,

In answer to my own post, it looks like the command cgi *requires* the
nagios.cfg file to be used as the main configuration file.  I was trying
to use my own 'maing' config file which was causing me the grief.  Now I
am seeing the error message : 

"Error: Could not stat() command file '/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd'!
The external command file may be missing, Nagios may not be running,
and/or Nagios may not be checking external commands."

My nagios user is : nagios, http is apache and the permissions on this
file are correct....sigh...one step at a time...any ideas ?

Yong.


On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:15 -0800, Yong Lee wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I hope someone can help me with a very puzzling problem.  I am trying to
> enable external commands so that I can temporarily disable notifications
> of a known problem.  
> 
> I have the following setup in my configuration file:
> 
> 
> check_external_commands=1
> command_check_interval=1
> command_file=/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
> 
> However, everytime i want to use the disable command, I get the
> message :
> 
> Sorry, but Nagios is currently not checking for external commands, so
> your command will not be committed!
> 
> I am guessing that I probably have a file permission/selinux context
> issue somewhere but I am having difficulty tracking this down.  
> 
> Can anyone provide some clues as to what files i can look at ?  
> 
> How does the cgi determine that I am do not have access to external
> commands ?
> 
> Many thanks for any help you can provide,
> 
> Yong.
> 
> 
> 
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