Problem with External Command File

[Lacayo, Luis F]

You should add the user who is running the httpd process to the NAGIOS
group. 

 

Luis

 

Luis Lacayo

Sr. UNIX Admin

Chicago Public Schools

Office of Technology Services

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Chicago, IL 60603

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lflacayo at cps.k12.il.us

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From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
Petersen, Mark
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:42 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with External Command File

 

I'm pretty sure the webserver (apache, nobody, www-data, or whatever you
setup) needs write permissions for that file.  It may also need to be a
named pipe.

 

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From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Kaplan,
Andrew H.
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:29 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Problem with External Command File

 

I am running Nagios 2.6 and whenever I want to "schedule a check of all
services...", I get the following error message:

 

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...

An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for
processing.

 

I first went to the nagios.cfg file and confirmed that external commands
were activated, and that the path of the nagios.cmd file,

/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd was uncommented and correct.

 

I checked the permissions on the nagios directory and its
subdirectories. The nagios directory is owned by nagios:nagios, and the

permissions on the directory are 777. This is also true for child
directories under the main one. The ../nagios/var/rw directory has the

same owners and permissions, while the nagios.cmd file is owned by
nagios:nagios with the permissions prw-rw----.

 

Has anyone seen this, and can tell me what I need to do to correct it?
Thanks. 

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