nagios.cmd permission issue

[Ilan Berkner]

Did not work, probably b/c I'm restarting the service as root?

Is there a way to tell under which user nagios is trying to access the
nagios.cmd file?

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Rutger Blom <rutger at blokje.net> wrote:

> Set the sticky bit on the directory.
>
> Rutger
>
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Ilan Berkner <iberkner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> New to Nagios...
>>
>> Got everything pretty much running, except when I try to modify things
>> using the web interface, I get this error:
>>
>> Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'
>> for update!
>>
>> The permissions on the external command file and/or directory may be
>> incorrect. Read the FAQs on how to setup proper permissions.
>>
>> An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for processing.
>>
>>
>> This is clearly a permission issue as when I manually change the
>> permissions of the /rw/nagios.cmd to 777 for example, it works fine.  When
>> the service is restarted and the pipe is recreated though, the permissions
>> are re-set.
>>
>> I am running the nginx web server, not apache.
>>
>> SELinux is disabled.
>>
>> The rw directory has 777 permissions and is owned by the nagios user and
>> group.
>>
>> The Nginx server runs under a different user / group and this could be the
>> issue.  However, I tried to set up the rw directory with that user and group
>> and still no luck.
>>
>> Help?
>>
>>
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