nagios.cmd external

[Israel Brewster]

On Jan 22, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Nedim Bicic wrote:

> ok and here is what i have for my permission set since thats  
> indicating to be the problem
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> > ls -al
> total 612
> drwxr-xr-x  4 nagios nagios     4096 Jan 22 12:20 .
> drwxr-xr-x  6 root   root       4096 Jan 21 04:02 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  2 nagios nagios     4096 Jan 22 00:00 archives
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios      238 Jan 21 09:18 comments.dat
> -rw-------  1 nagios nagios    16161 Jan  2 09:45 dead.letter
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios      239 Nov  1 19:59 downtime.dat
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios    24965 Jan 22 12:12 nagios.log
> -rw-------  1 nagios nagios    18260 Jan  2 13:34 nagios.tmpXc4VgH
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios   146210 Jan 22 11:53 objects.cache
> -rw-------  1 nagios nagios   180872 Jan 22 11:53 retention.dat
> drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagiocmd   4096 Jan 22 11:53 rw
> -rw-rw-r--  1 nagios nagios   173636 Jan 22 12:20 status.dat
> > cd rw
> > ls
> nagios.cmd
> > ls -al
> total 16
> drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagiocmd 4096 Jan 22 11:53 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 nagios nagios   4096 Jan 22 12:21 ..
> prw-rw----  1 nagios nagiocmd    0 Jan 22 11:53 nagios.cmd
>
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> everything is how it suppose to be as shown in the manual
>
> need help nagios.cmd file is there just can not edit anything and i  
> have external_command enables and interval check set to -1
>
>
> thanks

I'm coming into this discussion late, and haven't read all the back  
messages, so I apologize if this has already been asked, but is the  
user your webserver runs under in the nagiocmd group?

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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service INC.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
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> On 1/22/07, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios- 
> users-
> > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Nedim Bicic
> > Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 5:33 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external
> >
> > Hi all, i have nagios 2.4
> >
> > I need want to change and input settings via the web interface like
> > scheduale downtime etc, which i read that the external command does
> this i
> > enabled it in nagiod.cfg =1
> > but i aslo found out that you need to create a nagios.cmd file and
> give it
> > directory permission , located in one of the folders that keeps this
> log
> >
> > my question is how do i create this file and make it point to  
> external
> > command so when i do isue an extenal command on web interface
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> Please read the documentation for the section titled 'External
> Commands'. It answers all your questions.
>
> --
> Marc
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