<!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"> I am having real difficulty getting external commands to work and don't full understand what's going wrong, despite having RTFMing several times. As an example, I log in to the web interface as nagiosadmin via basic apache auth successfully as usual. I go to "comments" in the left hand pane and enter one for a host but when I click submit, I get the error: <div class="errorMessage">"Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command.</div> <div class="errorDescription">Read the section of the documentation that deals with authentication and authorization in the CGIs for more information. <a href="javascript:window.history.go(-2)">Return from whence you came"</a> As far as I can tell, I have all the perms set right according to the docs: cgi.cfg use_authentication=1 authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin nagios.cfg command_file=/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd check_external_commands=1 # NOTE: Setting this value to -1 causes Nagios to check the external # command file as often as possible. command_check_interval=-1 ll /var/nagios/ | grep rw/ drwxrws--- 2 nagios apache 4096 Aug 1 13:28 rw/ ll /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd prw-rw---- 1 nagios apache 0 Aug 1 13:28 /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd| The apache process is run by the apache user, a member of the apache group, so has full perms to the directory and the pipe file nagios.cmd. Nagios is run by nagios who is also a member of the apache group. This all looks as it should be according to the docs as far as I can see. </div> What am I missing? Hari </body> </html>