Setting up the Webinterface - errors

[Marc Powell]

On Friday, January 23, 2004 8:37 AM, az shared with us:

> hi,
> 
> i can't get the cgi-scripts to work: i get these errors in apache:
> 
> [Fri Jan 23 13:41:53 2004] [error] [client 2xx.xx.xx.xx] (2)No such
> file or directory: getpwuid: invalid userid -1 [Fri Jan 23 13:41:53
> 2004] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of
> /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/tac.cgi failed [Fri Jan 23 13:41:53 2004] [error]
> [client 2xx.xx.xx.xx] Premature end of script headers:
> /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/tac.cgi [Fri Jan 23 13:41:55 2004] [error]
> [client 2xx.xx.xx.xx] getpwuid: invalid userid -1 [Fri Jan 23
> 13:41:55 2004] [error] exec of /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/status.cgi failed
> [Fri Jan 23 13:41:55 2004] [error] [client 2xx.xx.xx.xx] Premature
> end of script headers: /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/status.cgi ... and so on  
> 
> what does this error ( getpwuid: invalid userid -1  )  mean ?

It seems to be indicating that the scripts are trying to get the uid for
a user, probably the nagios user you specified during compile time, and
that user doesn't exist. Did you create the user that you specified when
compiling nagios or the user 'nagios' if you didn't specify one?

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:4x2j2aAkYUgJ:www.opengroup.org/onli
nepubs/007908799/xsh/getpwuid.html+getpwuid&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

--
marc


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