Externals Commands

[Hari Sekhon]

Deborah Martin wrote:
> look at your /usr/local/nagios/sbin directory and check a) file 
> permissions are correct and also whether your .htaccess authrization 
> file is present.
> This error is generally caused by not correctly using .htaccess and 
> also not configuring apache properly - check your httpd.conf is 
> correctly configured
>  
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* Hari Sekhon [mailto:hpsekhon at googlemail.com]
>     *Sent:* 01 August 2006 14:14
>     *To:* Martin J. Green
>     *Cc:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>     *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Externals Commands
>
>     Martin J. Green wrote:
>>
>>     I can't get external commands to work either (appears it can't
>>     write to the file for some reason), but its so low on my list of
>>     priorities I haven't gotten to it yet.
>>
>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>     *From:* nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
>>     [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] *On Behalf Of
>>     *Hari Sekhon
>>     *Sent:* 01 August 2006 13:48
>>     *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>     *Subject:* [Nagios-users] Externals Commands
>>
>>     I am having real difficulty getting external commands to work and
>>     don't full understand what's going wrong, despite having RTFMing
>>     several times.
>>
>>     As an example, I log in to the web interface as nagiosadmin via
>>     basic apache auth successfully as usual. I go to "comments" in
>>     the left hand pane and enter one for a host but when I click
>>     submit, I get the error:
>>
>>     "Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command.
>>
>>     Read the section of the documentation that deals with
>>     authentication and authorization in the CGIs for more information.
>>
>>     Return from whence you came"
>>
>>     As far as I can tell, I have all the perms set right according to
>>     the docs:
>>
>>     cgi.cfg
>>
>>     use_authentication=1
>>     authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin
>>     authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin
>>     authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
>>     authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin
>>     authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin
>>     authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin
>>     authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin
>>
>>     nagios.cfg
>>
>>     command_file=/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
>>     check_external_commands=1
>>     # NOTE: Setting this value to -1 causes Nagios to check the external
>>     # command file as often as possible.
>>     command_check_interval=-1
>>
>>     ll /var/nagios/ | grep rw/
>>     drwxrws--- 2 nagios apache  4096 Aug  1 13:28 rw/
>>
>>     ll /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
>>     prw-rw---- 1 nagios apache 0 Aug  1 13:28 /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd|
>>
>>     The apache process is run by the apache user, a member of the
>>     apache group, so has full perms to the directory and the pipe
>>     file nagios.cmd. Nagios is run by nagios who is also a member of
>>     the apache group.
>>
>>     This all looks as it should be according to the docs as far as I
>>     can see.
>>
>>     What am I missing?
>>
>>
>>     Hari
>>
>
>     I think quite a lot of people have trouble with this but a lot
>     give up or are satisfied that the main bit is working and don't
>     bother with this...
>
>     does anybody have this working and if so could you post your
>     configs so I can see anything you have different to me?
>
>     are external commands generally broken or is there something
>     missing in the docs/our configs/our brains?
>
>     I'm using Version 1.4.1
>
>     Hari
>
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my .....nagios/sbin perms are 775 across the board and there is the same 
.htaccess file in there as in ...nagios/share

according to the docs that should be enough to work.

also, if I couldn't use the sbin then all the other stuff also wouldn't 
work because it all relies on the cgis to show status etc...

-h


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