<!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="midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA6A0C18@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: Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:59 PM 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 SOLVED Found the Problem! The default apache httpd.conf file has the Users and groups set like </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">this </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">User nobody Group #-1 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> What distro are you using? I haven't seen that before. </pre> </blockquote> it's version 2.0.52 configured and compiled myself on FC3 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-mods-shared=all <blockquote cite="midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA6A0C18@misex01.ena.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Not sure what that group line means, but I think i can guess, because when i change it to User nobody Group nobody All was well. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> It determines what group apache runs as. I would presume that #-1 puts it in no groups. </pre> </blockquote> Right, I know what the Group directive was for, but I've never seen the #-1 value. I assumed it was set to nobody since this was a fresh apache installation <blockquote cite="midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA6A0C18@misex01.ena.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thanks for help from everybody, especially Marc </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> No problem. I'm glad you figured it out. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I'll have to go back and see if I missed something in the docs that warns about this, or if there is a good place to add something to that effect. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I've not seen anything about it and I'm pretty familiar with the documentation. A FAQ entry would be good probably -- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nagios.org/faqs/addfaq.php">http://www.nagios.org/faqs/addfaq.php</a> -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id5hix">http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id5hix</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">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 </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>