Newbie question!

[Gerard Marcel]

Nagios is running under user nagios and group nagios.  The
/usr/local/nagios is owned by nagios:nagios.

Regards,

GM


On 2 Mar 2005 20:44:46 -0000, vivek sharma sharma
<vivek_222 at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>  Hi,
>      U can check on the permissions given to that directory and moreover
> have u made nagio user and group or not.
>  It should be there.Check out.
>  
>  Thanks 
>  Vivek
>  
>  
>  On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 Gerard Marcel wrote :
> 
>  >I am a newbie and I have been unable to shake the error below:
>  >
>  >Whoops!
>  >
>  >Error: Could not open CGI config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg'
>  >for reading!
>  >
>  >Here are some things you should check in order to resolve this error:
>  >
>  >    1. Make sure you've installed a CGI config file in its proper
>  >location. See the error message about for details on where the CGI is
>  >expecting to find the configuration file. A sample CGI configuration
>  >file (named cgi.cfg) can be found in the sample-config/ subdirectory
>  >of the Nagios source code distribution.
>  >    2. Make sure the user your web server is running as has permission
>  >to read the CGI config file.
>  >
>  >Make sure you read the documentation on installing and configuring
>  >Nagios thoroughly before continuing. If all else fails, try sending a
>  >message to one of the mailing lists. More information can be found at
>  >http://www.nagios.org.
>  >
>  >I have read the most of the documentation so far.  this error occurs
>  >when I try  to run a script on web interface.  All of the files are
>  >in their correct/default location.
>  >
>  >The documentation says that I am supposed to get config files from the
>  >plugins installed, but I can't find any so I am using the samples that
>  >come with nagios.  I have changed the samples to match my environment.
>  >  My apache is running as user apache and it is a member of the nagios
>  >group.
>  >
>  >Nagios-2.0.b2
>  >pluggins 1.4
>  >
>  >TIA,
>  >
>  >GM
>  >
>  >
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