nagios.cmd permission issue

[Rutger Blom]

Set the sticky bit on the directory.

Rutger

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Ilan Berkner <iberkner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> New to Nagios...
>
> Got everything pretty much running, except when I try to modify things
> using the web interface, I get this error:
>
> 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. Read the FAQs on how to setup proper permissions.
>
> An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for processing.
>
>
> This is clearly a permission issue as when I manually change the
> permissions of the /rw/nagios.cmd to 777 for example, it works fine.  When
> the service is restarted and the pipe is recreated though, the permissions
> are re-set.
>
> I am running the nginx web server, not apache.
>
> SELinux is disabled.
>
> The rw directory has 777 permissions and is owned by the nagios user and
> group.
>
> The Nginx server runs under a different user / group and this could be the
> issue.  However, I tried to set up the rw directory with that user and group
> and still no luck.
>
> Help?
>
>
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