Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for update!

[James]

On Sun, June 8, 2008 8:48 am, howard chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have followed the tutorial on this page to install nagios on CentOS5.1
>
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-fedora.html
>
>
>
> I have repeated the whole procedures at least "3" time, but still
> can't get it to work...
>
> Say when I try to enable a notification in the web interface, error
> always return:
>
> Error: Could not open command file
> '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for update!
>
>
> I know the problem came from permission, so I managed to get this work
> by:
>
>
> chmod 777 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
>
>
> But seems when I restarted the nagios, permission reset, so I am
> looking for the correct method to set the permission.
>
>
> Below is the  information which might be useful:
> ===================
> ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagcmd 0 Jun
> 8 20:46 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
>
>
>
> id nagios uid=504(nagios) gid=504(nagios) groups=504(nagios),505(nagcmd)
>
>
> cat /etc/group | grep nagcmd nagcmd:x:505:apache,nagios
>
>
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
> Howard
>
>
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Check the permissions on the directory:
/local/nagios/var/rw

The file is a pipe that is created when nagios is run.
It should not exist is nagios is stopped.



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