<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [Nagios-users] could not open command file for update</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  What are the permissions on nagios.cmd itself? Is your web server user allowed to write to the file, not just the directory? Also, any directories above and including rw must be at least +rx for the web server user (typically 755). -- Marc -----Original Message----- From: Shirley <shirley@origamipartners.com> To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thu Oct 30 00:03:20 2003 Subject: [Nagios-users] could not open command file for update aside from directory permissions being wrong, is there any other reason nagios would start to report Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for update! for any external command attempts? i've looked through the faqs and the only searchable archive i could find, and aside from directory problems, someone reported seeing the problem one night and then having it disappear by morning. initially i did not change any permissions while i was updating cfg files. after restarting nagios to watch the changes take affect, i tried to restart again via the web interface and i started getting first 'could not stat()' errors and after i did all sorts of variations of permissions/ownership on the var/rw/ directory, now i get the 'could not open' with the most permissive options set on that dir. i have restarted apache after every permissions change, btw and restarted nagios process as well several times. external commands are enabled and the right directory is referenced in the main cfg what else can i check? thanks for any help ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/donate/">http://sourceforge.net/donate/</A> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </BODY> </HTML>