weird permissions problem

[Matt Pounsett]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Greg Vickers wrote:

> -rw-rw-r--    1 vickersg nagios        164 Jan 19 20:50 servers.hostgroup.cfg
> 
> If I 'chmod o-r servers.hostgroup.cfg' then the web page won't show me any 
> information at all.

This really isn't that weird when you consider that your web server probably
isn't running as user "vickersg", and probably isn't part of the "nagios"
group.  Your Nagios CGIs are likely relying on 'other' permissions in order to
read your config files.


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