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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=blue face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:blue'>I don’t have
nagios.cmd but I manually created it<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'># su -m
nobody<br>
# touch ~nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd<br>
#<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>So I’m
nobody (my apache uses that) and it has enough rights to write to file.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Dan Davis</st1:PersonName> [mailto:hokie99cpe@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, May 29, 2005 9:44 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> alexus<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b>
nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Nagios-users] Logged
in as ? or Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:blue'>all files have nagios:nagios as their ownership/group..</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:blue'>~nagios have 755 nagios:nobody</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:blue'>Maybe that?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Everything else looks ok... and the nagios home directory is not the problem in
and of itself... but the nagios.cmd file needs to be writable by your web
server user. Be sure of that and you should be good to go.<br>
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-Dan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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