Schedule An Immediate Check - I have rtfm and stfw no help

[Michael W. Oliver]

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On Monday, February 10, 2003 10:46, you wrote:
> I wasn't too keen on the notion of adding 'nobody' to 'nagiocmd'.  Having
> said that, let's move forwards.
>
> To illustrate which usernames should be a member of 'nagiocmd':
>
> $ groups apache nagios
> apache : apache nagiocmd
> nagios : nagios nagiocmd
>

# grep nagiocmd /etc/group
nagiocmd:*:55554:nagios,nobody

# grep nagios /etc/group
nagios:*:55555:nagios
nagiocmd:*:55554:nagios,nobody
                                                                                                                                    
# grep nobody /etc/group
nobody:*:65534:
nagiocmd:*:55554:nagios,nobody

So, you can see that the user 'nobody' is in the correct group... more 
below...

> I also noticed you have the wrong perms on /usr/local/nagios/var/rw --
> try this:
>
> $ chmod 2770 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> $ ls -ld /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> drwxrws---    2 nagios   nagiocmd     4096 Feb  7 11:44
> /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
>
> You must have done a "chmod 2760" on the 'rw' directory.  You need mode
> 2770.
>
> Do all this, then restart nagios.  Then do a:
>
>   ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
>
> and see what nagios.cmd has for permissions.
>
> Everything should be good to go at this point.
>
> jc

# pwd
/usr/local/nagios/var/rw
                                                                                                                                    
# ls -alF
total 2
drwxrwS---  2 nagios  nagiocmd  512 Feb  5 15:11 ./
drwxrwxr-x  4 nagios  nagios    512 Feb 10 11:59 ../
prw-rw----  1 nagios  nagiocmd    0 Feb  5 15:11 nagios.cmd|

Now, I just figured out what was wrong... and you are right!  In the above, 
you see the permissions on /usr/local/nagios/var/rw as 'drwxrwS---', which 
is the result of following the instructions at:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/commandfile.html

I took your advice and changed it to 2770 (drwxrws---, lowercase 's'), and 
now it works just as it should.

The documentation assumes an initial state of g+x on 
/usr/local/nagios/var/rw, which isn't the case for me.  Following the doc 
to change the permissions to 'g+rw' resulted in 'drwxrwS---', or 2760, 
instead of the desired 'drwxrws---'.  Perhaps the doc could use 'chmod 
2770' instead of listing three chmod commands which still didn't give the 
desired result (for me, anyway).

Thanks very much for your help jc, you da man.
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