downtime not working

[John Jolet]

On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Rafael Bandeira da Costa wrote:

> Hello
>
> Your webserver user must have write access on /usr/local/nagios/var/ 
> rw directory.
> Have you set up the nagios command group, and added the webserver  
> user to that group?
>
> Then you would chown nagios.nagcmd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw and  
> chmod g+x /usr/local/nagios/var/rw.
>
> Just take a close look to adapt it to your needs (nagios homedir,  
> nagios user and nagios command group).
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Rafael Costa
> rafaelc at vegait.com.br
> Curitiba / PR / Brasil
>
I'm also unable to do downtime, but I just get "an error occurred  
processing your command".  the rw directory is writeable by apache,  
which is what my server runs as, and the pipe is group writable by  
apache.  I can't find an error either in the apache logs, nor the  
nagios logs.

>
> Nelson Serafica escreveu:
>> Wheneve i tried to schedule downtime, it shows:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> i run "chown -R nagios.nagios <dir-nagios>" just to make sure  
>> everything is under nagios user.
>>
>> i check cgi and put "noc" (coz this is the user that gets in to my  
>> web interface)
>> to have access in all external cgi.
>>
>> What might be the coz of the problem???
>>
>> What might be the cause of these problems??
>>
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