Set the sticky bit on the directory.<div><br></div><div>Rutger<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Ilan Berkner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iberkner@gmail.com">iberkner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<div><br></div><div>New to Nagios...</div><div><br></div><div>Got everything pretty much running, except when I try to modify things using the web interface, I get this error:</div>
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Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for update!</div><p></p><p></p><div style="font-family:arial, serif;text-align:center;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt">
The permissions on the external command file and/or directory may be incorrect. Read the FAQs on how to setup proper permissions.</div><p></p><p></p><div style="font-family:arial, serif;text-align:center;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt">
An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for processing.</div></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This is clearly a permission issue as when I manually change the permissions of the /rw/nagios.cmd to 777 for example, it works fine. When the service is restarted and the pipe is recreated though, the permissions are re-set.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am running the nginx web server, not apache.</div><div><br></div><div>SELinux is disabled.</div><div><br></div><div>The rw directory has 777 permissions and is owned by the nagios user and group.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Nginx server runs under a different user / group and this could be the issue. However, I tried to set up the rw directory with that user and group and still no luck.</div><div><br></div><div>Help?</div>
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