Highly Unusual Bug

[Marc Powell]

The CGI's read the config files every time they're executed. If there is
an error in the config files, they just bomb out with that generic error
message (because they can't fully read the config files). Future
versions of Nagios will create a config cache on restart that the CGI's
will read and that will prevent this type of behavior.

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Scibetti [mailto:russell at quadrix.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 10:36 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> I was just trying to view the CGIs for a particular Nagios instance,
> when I got the error message that I was not authorized to view this
> infomation.  I couldn't view any status data.  This has never happened
> before, and I knew that the cgi.cfg was configured to allow me in.  I
> tried other logins, and every user defined in cgi.cfg could log in but
> couldn't see any data.
> 
> The error was actually due to an error in the checkcommands.cfg.  I
had
> edited that config file without restarting Nagios, and there was a
> syntax error.  Once I fixed it and hup'd Nagios, I had full access
again.
> 
> My question, though, is why would this have the affect of making
Nagios
> think that the user didn't have viewing permissions?
> 
> Russell
> 
> --
> Russell Scibetti
> Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
> http://www.quadrix.com
> (732) 235-2335, ext. 7038
> 
> 
> 
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