Umm....Did you edit the cfg.cgi file and give nagiosadmin permission? Sorry the drugs have kicked in so my brain is messed... :) authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin "Olivier Beauchemin (Accolade Group)" <olivier@accoladegroup.net> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Whelp, I'm stumped. I can't figure out why I can't do things like add comments, disable service checks, schedule downtime etc. I've set myself up as nagiosadmin, right out of the box. I can see and do everything else... Just for fun, I've set up other hosts, with different contact names and then setup different usernames (doing basic auth, using Apache)... and that works as documented. What's the trick? I've already read: nagios/docs/commandfile.html. Thanks, Olivier PS. I've noticed that when I login, it says logged in as 'nagiosadmin' (which is correct). But, when I hit "commit" to disable a service check, for example, the "Sorry" page indicates logged in as ?. [obeauche@mrtg var]# ls -la total 904 drwxrwxr-x 4 nagios nagios 4096 Jan 9 21:47 . drwxrwxr-x 8 nagios nagios 4096 Jan 7 01:52 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 n agios nagios 4096 Jan 8 00:00 archives -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 0 Jan 9 20:53 comment.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 0 Jan 9 20:53 downtime.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Jan 9 18:04 nagios.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 822693 Jan 9 21:23 nagios.log drwxrwsr-x 2 nagios nagiocmd 4096 Jan 9 21:33 rw -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 42078 Jan 9 21:47 status.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 31332 Jan 9 20:53 status.sav and ... [obeauche@mrtg var]# cat /etc/group | grep nagio apache:x:48:otrs,nagios,nagiocmd nagios:x:503:apache nagiocmd:x:505:nagios,apache and ... command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd check_external_commands=1 log_external_commands=1 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ N agios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/mail/mailsig/*http://mailplus.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Mail Plus</a> - Powerful. Affordable. <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/mail/mailsig/*http://mailplus.yahoo.com">Sign up now</a>