AW: nagios stop script not killing all processes

[C. Bensend]

> You need to chmod to 777 the nagios.cmd file (usually in the
> /var/nagios/var/rw or in the path where your nagios is installed), after
> restarted
> the nagios daemon, then you can send commands (like Service Aknowledges)
> via the GUI

As a general rule, chmod'ing ANYTHING 0777 is A Bad Idea(tm).

This might fix the immediate problem, but could very well introduce others.
There are security risks (now, ANYONE with access to the machine can issue
commands to Nagios), stability risks (Whoops, I didn't mean to write to
THAT file!), etc.

nagios.cmd needs to be writable by the nagios daemon and the webserver,
no more, no less.

Benny


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