Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for update!

[Marc Powell]

On Jun 8, 2008, at 7:48 AM, howard chen wrote:

>
> But seems when I restarted the nagios, permission reset, so I am
> looking for the correct method to set the permission.
>
>
> Below is the  information which might be useful:
> ===================
> ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
> prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagcmd 0 Jun  8 20:46 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/ 
> nagios.cmd
>
>
> id nagios
> uid=504(nagios) gid=504(nagios) groups=504(nagios),505(nagcmd)
>
>
> cat /etc/group | grep nagcmd
> nagcmd:x:505:apache,nagios
>

apache has been restarted since adding it to the nagcmd group? Also,  
if you have SELinux enabled, the quickstart only talks about setting  
context for share and sbin, not the rw directory. Apache is going to  
need write access to var/rw/nagios.cmd in order to write data to the  
pipe.

--
Marc


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