Apache 1.3 + Nagios CGI = failure

[lukasz szmit]

----- Original Message -----
From: Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2005 8:42 pm
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Apache 1.3 + Nagios CGI = failure

> Lukasz Szmit wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:07 -0200, Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano 
> wrote:> 
> >>On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 14:42 +0000, Lukasz Szmit wrote:
> >>
> >>>[Thu Nov  3 14:13:26 2005] [error] (13)Permission denied: exec
> >>>of /usr/nagios/sbin/tac.cgi failed
> >>>[Thu Nov  3 14:13:26 2005] [error] [client x.y.z.a] malformed 
> header>>>from script. Bad
> >>>header=Launching... /usr/lib/apache-s: /usr/nagios/sbin/tac.cgi
> >>
> >>Let me guess, apache runs as user nobody and group nobody?
> >>You should make the owner or group of the apache process access the
> >>CGIs. It is all documented, on configuring web-interface.
> > 
> > 
> > No, it isn't. Debian default is www-data (both user and group).
> > Changing the group on /usr/nagios (recursively) to www-data 
> doesn't make
> > a difference - I still get exactly the same error. 
> > For some strange reason if I copy e.g. tac.cgi to the server
> > default /cgi-bin directory (Debian default for that
> > is /usr/lib/cgi-bin), which is owned by user:group root and has
> > permissions set to 755 - Apache is a happy camper and runs the 
> script. 
> > 
> > I have even double-checked if /usr is by any chance mounted with 
> noexec,> which it isn't. 
> > 
> 
> It's SELinux related. Browse the archives. The correct solution has 
> been 
> given many times.

Fine, but the problem is that my kernel is compiled without selinux support.

regards,
-- 
Lukasz Szmit | University College Dublin
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