Possible permission prob?

[Petrucci, Joseph]

In the /etc/passwd change the primary group for nagios from 100 to 1000 I just changed mine from the nagios GID to another group and I got the same error. This might fix your problem. The reason root could start it is the setgid() command seams to work for root even if root is not a member of the group.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Rusch, Daniel
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:32 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Possible permission prob?


All,
 
I upgraded my nagios site from  Version 2.0b2 to  Version 2.0b3   and somehow the permissions (or at least I think that's the problem) got hosed and now I can't start nagios as the nagios user.  The site was working properly before I upgraded.
 
I try to start nagios as the user nagios and I get the following error in the log file:
 
[1114096425] Warning: Could not set effective GID=1000
[1114096425] Failed to drop privileges.  Aborting.

 
 
(by the way, if I start nagios as root, nagios starts just fine) 
 
 
 
In /etc/group:
 
nobody:x:65533:
nagios:!:1000:nobody,nagios
nagiocmd:!:1002:nagios,nobody
 
in /etc/passwd
nagios:x:1002:100::/home/nagios:/bin/bash
 
Directory perms: 
 
Nagios Directory:
/usr/local/nagios 
total 11
drwxrwxr-x   8 nagios nagios  240 2005-03-24 12:07 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 root   root    288 2005-03-21 09:21 ..
drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios nagios  104 2005-04-19 11:53 bin
drwxrwxr-x   3 nagios nagios  432 2005-04-22 16:56 etc
drwxr-xr-x   2 nagios nagios 2048 2005-04-26 09:34 libexec
drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios nagios  584 2005-04-19 11:53 sbin
drwxrwxr-x   9 nagios nagios  360 2005-04-19 11:53 share
-rwxr-xr-x   1 nagios nagios   66 2005-03-21 10:27 start
-rwxr-xr-x   1 nagios nagios   66 2005-03-21 10:27 test
drwxrwxr-x   4 nagios nagios  256 2005-04-22 09:32 var

 
 
Var directory
/usr/local/nagios/var 
total 29
drwxrwxr-x  4 nagios nagios    256 2005-04-22 09:32 .
drwxrwxr-x  8 nagios nagios    240 2005-03-24 12:07 ..
drwxrwxr-x  2 nagios nagios    888 2005-04-19 00:00 archives
-rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios    240 2005-03-21 10:27 comments.dat
-rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios    241 2005-03-21 10:27 downtime.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 nagios users     212 2005-04-22 09:34 nagios.log
-rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios   7389 2005-04-21 10:01 objects.cache
-rw-------  1 nagios nagios   7224 2005-04-21 13:40 retention.dat
drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagiocmd   80 2005-04-19 17:04 rw


 
Bin Directory:
/usr/local/nagios/bin 
total 392
drwxrwxr-x  2 nagios nagios    104 2005-04-19 11:53 .
drwxrwxr-x  8 nagios nagios    240 2005-03-24 12:07 ..
-rwxrwxr--  1 nagios nagios 374460 2005-04-19 11:53 nagios
-rwxrwxr--  1 nagios nagios  24556 2005-04-19 11:53 nagiostats
 
 
 



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