They look like this: For nagios.cmd prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagcmd 0 2009-03-11 18:53 nagios.cmd for the rw catalog: drwxrwsr-x 2 nagios nagcmd 4096 2009-03-11 18:14 rw Please let me know if something looks obviously wrong. //Marco <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Jim Avery <<a href="mailto:jim@jimavery.me.uk">jim@jimavery.me.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2009/3/11 Marco Tirado <<a href="mailto:marco.tirado@gmail.com">marco.tirado@gmail.com</a>>: <div class="im">> > > My snmptt.conf file for the trap I am testing looks like: > > EVENT ospfOriginateLsa .1.3.6.1.2.1.14.16.2.0.12 "Status Events" Normal > FORMAT $D. $Fn VARIABLE VALUES: $-* > EXEC /usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandlers/submit_check_result "myhost" > "snmp_traps" 1 "My text message" >> /tmp/OutputTest 2>&1 > SDESC > ... > EDESC > > And my nagios configuration is correct as I can see the passive check > results in my nagios console if I run the above EXEC command from the > command line as user snmptt. > > //Marco </div>I'm sorry if this question sounds stupid, but what are the permissions and ownership on /usr/local/nagios/var/rw and /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd ? </blockquote></div>