nagios.cmd permission issue

[Martin Melin]

Have a look at this page from the official docs:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/commandfile.html

<http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/commandfile.html>Do as it says and
things will work.

Re: your second question, just look in nagios.conf.

<http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/commandfile.html>Best regards,
Martin Melin

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Ilan Berkner <iberkner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Did not work, probably b/c I'm restarting the service as root?
>
> Is there a way to tell under which user nagios is trying to access the
> nagios.cmd file?
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Rutger Blom <rutger at blokje.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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