External Commands

[Marc Powell]

This is almost certainly a permissions issue. Is httpd a member of group
nagiocmd and has it been restarted since it was added? How about the
directories above rw... Are they accessible by httpd? 

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Hasenjager [mailto:phasenjager at fzacpa.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 10:55 AM
> To: Marc Powell
> 
> I have followed all instructions from the docs.
> 
> when I do an ls from the var directory rw shows as
> 
> drwxrws---     2 nagios   nagiocmd     4096  July 25 09:57 rw
> 
> when I do an ls on the rw directory is shows
> 
> prw-rw----      1 nagios   nagiocmd          0 Jul 25 09:57 nagios.cmd
> 
> -
> Pat.
> 
> 
> 
> >>> "Marc Powell" <mpowell at ena.com> 07/25/03 10:21:01 AM >>>
> Have you created the 'rw' directory with the proper permissions and
> restarted nagios?
> 
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/commandfile.html
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick Hasenjager [mailto:phasenjager at fzacpa.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 10:04 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm new to nagios.  Everything is working properly except, when I
> try
> > to do anything that requires an external command it gives me the
> > following error...
> >
> > - - - - -
> > Error: Could not stat() command file
> > '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'!
> >
> > The external command file may be missing, Nagios may not be running,
> > and/or Nagios may not be checking external commands.
> >
> > An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for
> > processing.
> > - - - - -
> >
> > I have enabled external commands in nagios.cfg.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Patrick Hasenjager
> > Technical Support Specialist
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