<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>RE: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> If you re-check what I pasted below that's how it's configured. Nagios and Apache are in a group called nagiocmd -----Original Message----- From: Marc Powell [<A HREF="mailto:mpowell@ena.com">mailto:mpowell@ena.com</A>] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:52 AM To: Daniel Jimenez; Nagios users list Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands Sorry for the HTML previously. I seldom send from this client... You've got it backwards. You should have a group called nagioscmd with nagios and apache being members: nagioscmd:x:<gid>:nagios,apache Make that modification, restart apache and you should be good to go. -- Marc -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Jimenez [<A HREF="mailto:DanielJ@avatar-cs.net">mailto:DanielJ@avatar-cs.net</A>] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 6:25 AM To: 'Rasmus Plewe'; Nagios users list Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands drwxrwS--- 2 nagios nagiocmd 4096 Feb 18 00:30 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw root 834 1 0 00:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 883 834 0 00:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 884 834 0 00:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 885 834 0 00:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 886 834 0 00:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 887 834 0 00:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 888 834 0 00:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 889 834 0 00:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 890 834 0 00:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd [root@johnny5 var]# groups apache apache : apache nagiocmd [root@johnny5 var]# groups nagios nagios : nagios nagiocmd Pretty standard RH8 install. Httpd installed during OS build. -----Original Message----- From: Rasmus Plewe [<A HREF="mailto:rplewe@hpce.nec.com">mailto:rplewe@hpce.nec.com</A>] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:00 AM To: Nagios users list Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 12:04:36AM -0600, Daniel Jimenez wrote: > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Daniel Jimenez wrote: > > > > My problem is that whenever I go to add host/service comments I'm > > returned w/ > > > > Error: Could not stat() command file > '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'! > > > > Anyone have any insight? > > > > Daniel Jimenez > -----Original Message----- > From: Subhendu Ghosh [[1]<A HREF="mailto:sghosh@sghosh.org">mailto:sghosh@sghosh.org</A>] > Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:37 PM > To: 'nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net' > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands > > <A HREF="http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=58&expand=false&showdesc=true" TARGET="_blank">http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=58&expand=false&showdesc=true</A> > > Subhendu, > > These are actually the steps I followed to set this up. I've gone over > the steps at least twenty times and find no mistakes. > > Daniel Excuse my disbelief, but with unixoide operating systems I still think that if you do something right, it will work. Could you please post the output of: ls -ld /usr/local/nagios/var/rw ps -ef | grep httpd grep <user obtained from previous command> /etc/group Please try to avoid mailing in HTML. At least on this list. Rasmus -- In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. <A HREF="http://thinkgeek.com/sf" TARGET="_blank">http://thinkgeek.com/sf</A> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" TARGET="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. <A HREF="http://thinkgeek.com/sf" TARGET="_blank">http://thinkgeek.com/sf</A> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" TARGET="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </BODY> </HTML>