Nagios, REL, and Postfix

Ismail M. Settenda ismail at habari.co.tz
Thu Apr 26 19:59:26 CEST 2007


Change group ownership to nagiocmd

prw-rw----  1 nagios nagiocmd 0 Apr 25 18:54
/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd



On 4/26/07, Drew Myers <drew.myers at innerwireless.com> wrote:
>
>
> Ok, I admit it, I'm a bonehead.
>
> I migrated from sendmail to postfix. I have several passive checks that
> run by way of REL.  I did not anticipate breaking this functionality,
> but I have.
>
> In the maillog, I have the following entries:
>
> Command died with status 13: "/usr/local/nagios/bin/smtpreceiver.pl".
> Command output: Can't open /var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd for writing:
> Permission denied )
>
> The permissions on the pipe are:
>
> prw-rw----  1 nagios nagios 0 Apr 26 12:41 /var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
>
> If I change from 0660 to 0666, everything works fine.
>
> I realize this is actually a postfix issue, not nagios, but I thought
> someone on the list might have encountered this problem and have a slick
> fix close to hand.
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Drew
>
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