Bad group on cmd pipe after restart.

[Kevin Scott Sumner]

I would expect that if I say that Nagios' user is nagios and its group is 
www-data, it would use nagios as it's user and www-data as it's group for 
all it's operations, including fixing up files when it starts.

I'm using 3.0b6, currently.

Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Sumner
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Physics and Astronomy Networking Infrastructure and Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Cipriani, Robert C wrote:

> I see what you mean...why doesn't it work as expected? Did you say which version you are using? 3.x?
>
> I have the luxury of running apache/Nagios on a dedicated virtual machine.
>
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> Robert C. Cipriani
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> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 6:15 PM
> To: Cipriani, Robert C
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> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Bad group on cmd pipe after restart.
>
> Robert,
>
> Affecting the apache user will affect *all* instances of apache in our
> infrastructure (regular website, as well as BackupPC's apache, etc).  I
> know this seems like a broken setup -- it is.  :)  We're in planning
> phases for better machine user/group management,  but creating a one-off
> machine in terms of users/groups is difficult at the moment because the flat files
> are automatically spawned by some, err...  "feature challenged"
> scripts.  I'm pushing hard to get this changed, but for now, I can't change
> change a user's group membership without it affecting that on every
> machine.
>
> I realize I could remedy this situation by running apache as
> www-data:nagios on our nagios server, but my question isn't so much about
> making it work -- it's about whether nagios is broken in the way that it
> deals with creating its command pipe or whether I've over looked something
> (a bug vs. my poor brain, if you will).
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> -----
> Kevin Sumner
> ksumner at physics.unc.edu
> (919) 962-6494
> Assistant Systems Administrator
> Physics and Astronomy Networking Infrastructure and Computing
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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>
>>
>> Kevin,
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, why not run Nagios as nagios:nagios? On my setup, the apache user is a member of the nagios group.  Maybe yours is using the nagios user's default group?
>>
>>
>>
>> Robert C. Cipriani
>> Senior Network Administrator
>> Tampa Bay Division IT
>> Bright House Networks
>> W: (727) 329-2000 x74264
>> M: (727) 365-1231
>>
>>
>>
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