<div>yeah i think thats the problem i am loging in as nagiosadmin but from what i copied and pasted from documentation in nagios created user nobody and nagios '</div> <div> </div> <div>But when i log into nagios i am logging in as nagiosadmin not nobody or nagios i tried adding nagiosadmin with this command:</div> <div> </div> <div>/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagiocmd nagiosadmin </div> <div>usermod: user nagiosadmin does not exist</div> <div> </div> <div>keeps giving me this error </div> <div>but i think difinitly this might be casuing the error can you show me what i can do to add the user to this group or check weather it has been added??</div> <div> </div> <div>thanks</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>On 1/22/07, Israel Brewster <<a href="mailto:israel@frontierflying.com">israel@frontierflying.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Jan 22, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Nedim Bicic wrote: > ok and here is what i have for my permission set since thats > indicating to be the problem > > > ls -al > total 612 > drwxr-xr-x 4 nagios nagios 4096 Jan 22 12:20 . > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 21 04:02 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Jan 22 00:00 archives > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 238 Jan 21 09:18 comments.dat > -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 16161 Jan 2 09:45 dead.letter > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 239 Nov 1 19:59 downtime.dat > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 24965 Jan 22 12:12 nagios.log > -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 18260 Jan 2 13:34 nagios.tmpXc4VgH > -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 146210 Jan 22 11:53 objects.cache > -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 180872 Jan 22 11:53 retention.dat > drwxrwsr-x 2 nagios nagiocmd 4096 Jan 22 11:53 rw > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 173636 Jan 22 12:20 status.dat > > cd rw > > ls > nagios.cmd > > ls -al > total 16 > drwxrwsr-x 2 nagios nagiocmd 4096 Jan 22 11:53 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 nagios nagios 4096 Jan 22 12:21 .. > prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagiocmd 0 Jan 22 11:53 nagios.cmd > > > everything is how it suppose to be as shown in the manual > > need help nagios.cmd file is there just can not edit anything and i > have external_command enables and interval check set to -1 > > > thanks I'm coming into this discussion late, and haven't read all the back messages, so I apologize if this has already been asked, but is the user your webserver runs under in the nagiocmd group? ----------------------------------------------- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician Frontier Flying Service INC. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 ----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 1/22/07, Marc Powell <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</a>> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: <a href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:nagios-">nagios-</a> > users- > > <a href="mailto:bounces@lists.sourceforge.net"> bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] On Behalf Of Nedim Bicic > > Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 5:33 PM > > To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> > > Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external > > > > Hi all, i have nagios 2.4 > > > > I need want to change and input settings via the web interface like > > scheduale downtime etc, which i read that the external command does > this i > > enabled it in nagiod.cfg =1 > > but i aslo found out that you need to create a nagios.cmd file and > give it > > directory permission , located in one of the folders that keeps this > log > > > > my question is how do i create this file and make it point to > external > > command so when i do isue an extenal command on web interface > > Please read the documentation for the section titled 'External > Commands'. It answers all your questions. > > -- > Marc > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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