error in nagios.cmd for update

[Subhendu Ghosh]

did you restart the webserver after adding it to the group?

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Christian Souza wrote:

> Yes.
>
> look:
>
> #more /etc/group
> ....
> nagios:x:503:nagios,apache
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Subhendu Ghosh" <sghosh at sghosh.org>
> To: "Christian Souza" <chrsouza at ig.com.br>
> Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 3:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] error in nagios.cmd for update
>
>
>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Christian Souza wrote:
>>
>>> I have been searching anything about this error, but i can't found.
>>>
>>> When I tried do add a new coment for a service (as exemple), i receive
> the
>>> follow:
>>>
>>>
>>> Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'
> for
>>> update!
>>>
>>>
>>> The permissions on the external command file and/or directory may be
>>> incorrect. Read the FAQs on how to setup proper permissions.
>>>
>>>
>>> An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for
> processing.
>>>
>>>
>>> was verified the configuration, bellow:
>>>
>>> #more nagios.cfg |grep check_ext
>>> check_external_commands=1
>>>
>>>
>>> #ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var
>>> drwxrwxr-x  2 nagios nagios  4096 Feb 11 00:00 archives
>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios     0 Feb 11 12:59 comment.log
>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios     0 Feb 11 12:59 downtime.log
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 root   root       5 Feb 11 12:59 nagios.lock
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios 33512 Feb 11 16:51 nagios.log
>>> drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagios  4096 Feb 11 12:59 rw
>>> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios 13248 Feb 11 16:52 status.log
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios  9924 Feb 11 15:59 status.sav
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Is the web server a member of the "nagios" group?  otherwise it does not
>> have write perms
>>
>>
>> --
>> -sg
>>
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