external commands schedule downtime.

[Patrick Morris]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Justin Craig wrote:

> Interesting, what should it be?  This is the default as I have not changed
> it, and nagios.cmd does exist in usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> 
> On 7/31/06, Patrick Morris <patrick.morris at hp.com> wrote:
> >
> >On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Justin Craig wrote:
> >
> >> such as schedule downtime for a host or service, or disabling
> >> notifications....  I understand this could be seperate issues, but I
> >have
> >> permission for "nagiosadmin" to be able to issue external commands et
> >al.
> >> When I try to schedule downtime, nagios tells me
> >>
> >> Error: Could not open command file 'usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'
> >for
> >> update!
> >>
> >> The permissions on the external command file and/or directory may be
> >> incorrect.
> >
> >Take a look at the path.  It's wrong.

Without a slash at the beginning, it's a relative path.  It's only going
to be right if you're in the home directory.

For example, try typing "cd usr/local/nagios/var/rw" from /home.  It
won't work.

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