Stumper? bug? nsca daemon & ext. cmd. file -- not a permission issue?

[Marc Powell]

I don't know if it's just a display issue or not but this line caught my
eye:

Jan  7 08:27:38 XXXX nsca[8827]: Command file
'/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd '

Note the '<space>' after nagios.cmd. Just seems kind of odd to me that
that would be there. Other than that, does nsca run out of (x)inetd or
as a daemon? For our sake could you do the following and resend to the
list?

ls -la /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
ps -efwww | grep nsca

Thanks,

Marc 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Ehr [mailto:kehr02 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:03 AM
> To: nagios
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Stumper? bug? nsca daemon & ext. cmd. file --
not
> a permission issue?
> 
> I have a hacker challenge -- maybe...
> 
> I've read the phobic posts about Red Hat 8.0, but I
> haven't seen anything that looks like my problem, RH
> 8.0 or otherwise:
> 
> My problem is that the nsca daemon, when handling a
> remote network request from send_nsca, gives the
> following error:
> 
> 
> Jan  7 08:27:38 XXXX nsca[8827]: Handling the
> connection...
> Jan  7 08:27:38 XXXX nsca[8827]: SERVICE CHECK -> Host
> Name: 'laptop', Service Description: 'BOGUS', Return
> Code: '2', Output: 'Error Message goes here'
> Jan  7 08:27:38 XXXX nsca[8827]: Command file
> '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd ' does not exist,
> attempting to use alternate dump file
> '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nsca.dump' for output
> Jan  7 08:27:38 XXXX nsca[8827]: Could not open
> alternate dump file
> '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nsca.dump' for appending
> Jan  7 08:27:38 XXXX nsca[8827]: End of connection...
> 
> I've configured the user/group for both nagios and the
> nsca daemons to be 'nagios/nagios'.   All of
> /usr/local/nagios is user/group nagios.nagios.   The
> permissions are correct (I'm 99%) sure, because all of
> the external command CGI's work perfectly; also, su-ed
> to the nagios user, I can echo commands >> to the
> /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd file and they show
> up fine both in the log and in the web interface....
> 
> I have tried compiling the 1.06b and 1.0 versions of
> nagios, the 2.1 and latest CVS build of nsca,
> mix-matching them in all combinations.   I have set
> the permissions on the "rw" directory both by hand
> (setting the group, the S bit on the group level,
> etc...) and with the "install-commandmode" make
> option;  I've also tried chmoding the file with "chmod
> 777" after it gets created when nagios starts and
> there is the same error.
> 
> The fact that I can echo commands in locally as the
> "nagios" user and get good results seems to probably
> show that its neither a permissions issue or anything
> with the passive/external command interface.   Maybe
> this is a bug with nsca itself?
> 
> As an aside, I cannot get the alternate dump file to
> work either.   Touching the nagios.dump file ahead of
> time, and setting wide open permissions makes no
> difference.   (I'm assuming that the dump file is
> supposed to be a regular text file -- not a FIFO named
> pipe like the command file, right??)
> 
> I'm stumped... but I'm also surprised that I'm seeing
> something that hasn't popped up for someone else
> already.  Any help will bring you praise, beer, pizza,
> cookies or whatever tithe you demand.  TIA,
> 
> Karl
> 
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