Interesting, what should it be? This is the default as I have not changed it, and nagios.cmd does exist in usr/local/nagios/var/rw <div>On 7/31/06, Patrick Morris <<a href="mailto:patrick.morris@hp.com">patrick.morris@hp.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Justin Craig wrote: > such as schedule downtime for a host or service, or disabling > notifications.... I understand this could be seperate issues, but I have > permission for "nagiosadmin" to be able to issue external commands et al. > When I try to schedule downtime, nagios tells me > > 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. Take a look at the path. It's wrong. </blockquote></div> -- - Justin