External Commands not working SOLVED

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of John McGowan
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:59 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] External Commands not working SOLVED
> 
> Found the Problem!
> 
> The default apache httpd.conf file has the Users and groups set like
this
> 
> User nobody
> Group #-1

What distro are you using? I haven't seen that before.

> Not sure what that group line means, but I think i can guess, because
> when i change it to
> 
> User nobody
> Group nobody
> 
> All was well.

It determines what group apache runs as. I would presume that #-1 puts
it in no groups.
 
> Thanks for help from everybody, especially Marc

No problem. I'm glad you figured it out.

> I'll have to go back and see if I missed something in the docs that
> warns about this, or if there is a good place to add something to that
> effect.

I've not seen anything about it and I'm pretty familiar with the
documentation. A FAQ entry would be good probably --
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/addfaq.php

--
Marc


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