<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C2D722.67889760"> <title>RE: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands</title>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> You’ve got it backwards. You should have a group called nagioscmd with nagios and apache being members:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> nagioscmd:x:<gid>:nagios,apache<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Make that modification, restart apache and you should be good to go.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> marc<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Jimenez [mailto:DanielJ@avatar-cs.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 6:25 AM To: 'Rasmus Plewe'; Nagios users list Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Issue w/External Commands <o:p> </o:p> drwxrwS--- 2 nagios nagiocmd 4096 Feb 18 00:30 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw <o:p></o:p> 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 <o:p></o:p> [root@johnny5 var]# groups apache apache : apache nagiocmd [root@johnny5 var]# groups nagios nagios : nagios nagiocmd <o:p></o:p> Pretty standard RH8 install. Httpd installed during OS build. <o:p></o:p> -----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 <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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 <o:p></o:p> > -----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 <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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: <o:p></o:p> ls -ld /usr/local/nagios/var/rw <o:p></o:p> ps -ef | grep httpd <o:p></o:p> grep <user obtained from previous command> /etc/group <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Please try to avoid mailing in HTML. At least on this list. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Rasmus -- In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> ------------------------------------------------------- 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 <o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>