Nagios External Commands

[Joerg Linge]

Gavin Williams schrieb:
> HI there, 
> 
>  
> 
> I'm having some issues with Nagios External commands. 
> 
> Basically, they're not working. 
> 
> 
> I've compiled Nagios with cmdgroup=nagcmd, added Nagios and apache users
> to the nagcmd group. 
> 
> I can see the commands being written to Nagios.cmd in /opt/nagio/var/rw/
> however they don't go anywhere from there...
> 
>  
> 
> The relevant lines in my Nagios.cfg file looks like this:
> 
> check_external_commands=1
> 
> command_check_interval=30s
> 
> command_file=/opt/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
> 
> downtime_file=/opt/nagios/var/downtime.dat
> 
> comment_file=/opt/nagios/var/comments.dat
> 
>  
> 
> The permissions on the folder look like this:
> 
> drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagcmd 4096 Apr  2 16:42 .
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 apache nagcmd  249 Apr  2 16:45 nagios.cmd

Your nagios.cmd is a regular file and _not_ a named pipe.
This file is not created by nagios!

Please delete this file and do a nagios restart.
The pipe should be created automaticaly.

Jörg

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