strange error

[Marc Powell]

Changing the permissions is only a temporary fix. The next time you
restart nagios they're just going to go back to what they were. One
correct solution is to use group permissions as you touched on although
'nogroup' might not be appropriate depending on what that's indicating
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Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Pete Dewell
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 8:56 AM
> To: Frank Fuhrmann
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] strange error
> 
> Change the permissions on the nagios.cmd file to 666.
> 
> Or change the user/group that your nagios dameon is running as to
> nagios:nogroup.
> 
> I find that changing the permissions is a quick'n'dirty fix for this
> problem
> 
> Pete Dewell
> 
> Frank Fuhrmann wrote:
> > When I try to enable notification for all hosts in a particular
> > hostgroup, I get the following errors:
> >
> >
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Error: Could not stat() command file
'/opt/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'!
> >
> > The external command file may be missing, Nagios may not be running,
> > and/or Nagios may not be checking external commands.
> > An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for
> > processing.
> >
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > The command file exists:
> >
> > $ ls -l /opt/nagios/var/rw/
> > insgesamt 8
> > drwxrws---  2 nagios nogroup 4096 2005-08-10 13:26 .
> > drwxrwxr-x  4 nagios nogroup 4096 2005-08-10 13:40 ..
> > prw-rw----  1 nagios nogroup    0 2005-08-10 13:26 nagios.cmd
> >
> > Nagios is running and check_external_commands is set to 1 in
nagios.cfg.
> >
> > $ ps ax | grep nagios
> > 23160 ?        Ss     0:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nsca
> > -c /opt/nagios/etc/nsca.cfg
> > 2856 ?        Ss     0:00 /opt/nagios/bin/nagios
> > -d /opt/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> >
> >
> > What is the problem here?


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