<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Marc Powell wrote: <blockquote cite="midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA6A0B57@misex01.ena.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-----Original Message----- From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nagios-users">mailto:nagios-users</a>- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:admin@lists.sourceforge.net">admin@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] On Behalf Of John McGowan Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:57 AM To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] External Commands not working </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> [snip] </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> okay here is my documentation.... [root@gob rw]# pwd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw [root@gob rw]# ls -al total 8 drwxrwsr-x 2 nagios nagiocmd 4096 Apr 27 11:04 . drwxrwxr-x 4 nagios nagios 4096 Apr 27 11:49 .. prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagiocmd 0 Apr 27 11:04 nagios.cmd </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Looks good. How about permissions on /usr/local/nagios/var? Is it at least 755? Everything above that should be fine as you've indicated your CGI's work so Apache has access to /usr/local/nagios at the least. </pre> </blockquote> The "dot dot" entry above shows that... Here's the whole directory, just in case... [root@gob var]# cd /usr/local/nagios [root@gob nagios]# ls -al total 36 drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Apr 22 22:02 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Apr 22 17:14 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Apr 22 16:58 bin drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Apr 22 22:43 etc drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 22 20:34 libexec drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Apr 22 16:58 sbin drwxrwxr-x 9 nagios nagios 4096 Apr 22 20:34 share drwxrwxr-x 4 nagios nagios 4096 Apr 27 12:24 var <blockquote cite="midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA6A0B57@misex01.ena.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">[root@gob rw]# cat /etc/group | grep nagios nagios:x:502: nagiocmd:x:503:nagios,nobody </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Yep. Good here as well. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">[root@gob rw]# ps -ef | grep httpd root 20389 1 0 Apr22 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 9430 20389 0 11:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 9431 20389 0 11:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 9432 20389 0 11:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 9433 20389 0 11:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 9434 20389 0 11:07 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 9446 20389 0 11:08 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 9495 20389 0 11:09 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start root 10431 6343 0 11:50 pts/1 00:00:00 grep httpd </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> April 22nd was the last restart. I know you said you've restarted multiple times but since I don't know when you modified the groups file, I'd suggest stopping and restarting (reload or HUP isn't sufficient). This is my next best guess. [more snips] </pre> </blockquote> Ah ha I thought we were on to something there... I was doing and "apachectl restart" to restart the web server. I completely shutdown the web server and started it back up again, but I'm still seeing the same problem. [root@gob nagios]# ps -ef | grep httpd root 11081 1 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start nobody 11082 11081 0 12:21 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start .... <blockquote cite="midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA6A0B57@misex01.ena.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> 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 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">may be </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">incorrect. Read the FAQs on how to setup proper permissions. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> This really is indicative of a file system permissions issue. Does your apache error_log provide any more useful information? </pre> </blockquote> No, nothing is showing up in the error_log I see this in the access log... 206.137.122.225 - - [27/Apr/2005:12:29:36 -0500] "GET /nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi?cmd_typ=25&host=downserver HTTP/1.1" 200 2605 206.137.122.225 - - [27/Apr/2005:12:29:37 -0500] "POST /nagios/cgi-bin/cmd.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 1393 And the latest error_log shows the hard reset of apache, and nothing more... [root@gob logs]# tail error_log [Wed Apr 27 11:05:25 2005] [notice] Digest: done [Wed Apr 27 11:05:26 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.52 (Unix) DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations [Wed Apr 27 11:07:56 2005] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart [Wed Apr 27 11:07:56 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Wed Apr 27 11:07:56 2005] [notice] Digest: done [Wed Apr 27 11:07:57 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.52 (Unix) DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations [Wed Apr 27 12:21:11 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Wed Apr 27 12:21:19 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Wed Apr 27 12:21:19 2005] [notice] Digest: done [Wed Apr 27 12:21:20 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.52 (Unix) DAV/2 configured -- resuming normal operations <blockquote cite="midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA6A0B57@misex01.ena.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Is that were the stat() error came from? </pre> </blockquote> The error I'm seeing is in the browser... <blockquote cite="midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA6A0B57@misex01.ena.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Everything else looks fine with the exception of the possible need for a hard restart of apache. </pre> </blockquote> That's a shame, because I did a hard restart and it's still not working... Should I recompile with some debugging options or something to figure out what cmd.cgi is having a problem with? <blockquote cite="midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA6A0B57@misex01.ena.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! 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