R: Installing problem

[Marco Borsani]

Well, 

1) On HP-UX nagios is running correctly, all the libraries were installed
before install it.

I am not expert on Linux so I don't understand when you write:
"..but for RedHat you *should* get everything needed by the simple expedient
of

yum install gd-devel"
What do you mean?


2) I performed:
su apache
cd /usr/local/
cd nagios
cd sbin
./status.gci
getcgivars(): Unsupported REQUEST_METHOD -> ''

I'm guessing you're trying to execute the CGI from a command line.
In order to do that, you need to set the REQUEST_METHOD environment
variable to either "GET", "HEAD", or "POST".  When using the
GET and HEAD methods, arguments can be passed to the CGI
by setting the "QUERY_STRING" environment variable.  If you're
using the POST method, data is read from standard input.  Also of
note: if you've enabled authentication in the CGIs, you must set the
"REMOTE_USER" environment variable to be the name of the user you're
"authenticated" as.

What does it mean?

I am sorry, I am working with nagios from 2 year, but I meet these error for
the first time now!

Regards
Marco


-}-----Messaggio originale-----
-}Da: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
-}Inviato: venerdì 29 settembre 2006 16.29
-}A: Marco Borsani
-}Cc: 'Nagios Users Mailinglist'
-}Oggetto: Re: [Nagios-users] Installing problem
-}
-}Marco Borsani wrote:
-}> Hi all
-}>  
-}> I need to change my nagios server from an HP-UX to a RedHat.
-}>  
-}> I install and configure nagios like always, but at the end of all 
-}> procedures I see something strange and Nagios does not run.
-}>  
-}> 1) In the /usr/local/nagios/sbin directory some files are absent: 
-}> histogram.cgi
-}> statusmap.cgi
-}> trends.cgi
-}>  
-}
-}You didn't have the proper gd libraries and headers installed 
-}at the time of compiling. I'm not sure where you can find 
-}those from HP-UX, but for RedHat you *should* get everything 
-}needed by the simple expedient of
-}
-}	yum install gd-devel
-}
-}
-}> 2) The web interface show the error:
-}> The server encountered an internal error or 
-}misconfiguration and was 
-}> unable to complete your request.
-}>  
-}> 3) In the /var/log/httpd/errorlog_log I see:
-}> [Fri Sep 29 15:56:35 2006] [error] [client 151.X.X.X] 
-}(13)Permission denied:
-}> exec of '/usr/local/nagios/sbin/status.cgi' failed, referer:
-}> <http://nagios-cl1.it.net/side.html> 
-}> http://nagios-cl1.it.net/side.html
-}> [Fri Sep 29 15:56:35 2006] [error] [client 151.X.X.X] 
-}Premature end of 
-}> script headers: status.cgi, referer:  
-}> <http://nagios-cl1.it.net/side.html>
-}> http://nagios-cl1.it.net/side.html
-}>  
-}
-}The error message tells you exactly what's going wrong.
-}"Permission denied: exec of 
-}'/usr/local/nagios/sbin/status.cgi' failed"
-}
-}You need to make sure the user apache is running as can 
-}execute the status.cgi binary. The easiest way to do that is 
-}to do like this, assuming the apache pseudo-user is called "httpd"
-}
-}su httpd
-}cd /usr/local
-}cd nagios
-}cd sbin
-}./status.cgi
-}
-}The reason for doing it in steps is that you likely have not 
-}only faulty permissions on the status.cgi program, but 
-}somewhere along the path as well. Doing it like this will let 
-}you see at which points you need to modify the permissions in 
-}order for httpd to be able to execute the program, so just 
-}chmod your way there.
-}
-}-- 
-}Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
-}OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
-}Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231
-}


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