<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV>Hi Daniel,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I am new to Nagios and I had the same problem with a new install of 3.0.1 on RHES4.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The fix for me was to apply the rights to the rw directory instead of the nagios.cmd file as the file gets recreated regularly and will loose any rights you apply to it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>HTH,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Simon Finch</DIV> <DIV>ESM Team Leader</DIV> <DIV>St.George Bank</DIV> <DIV>Australia >>> Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> 19/05/2008 7:26 am >>> On Sunday, 18 May 2008 17:34:31 +0000, Morris, Patrick wrote: > > I've update the Nagios version from 3.0b5 to 3.0.1 stable. But > > re-scheduling a new check for a service I get: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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. Read the FAQs on how to setup proper permissions. > > An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for > > processing. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > sparky:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# ll > > total 0 > > prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagios 0 2008-05-18 10:38 nagios.cmd > > sparky:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# id nagios > > uid=1001(nagios) gid=1001(nagios) groups=1001(nagios),1002(nagcmd) > > sparky:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# id www-data > > uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data),1002(nagcmd) > > The permissions are according to Ubuntu Quickstart. Changing the > > group of nagios.cmd to nagcmd I get rid of the problem. But > > restarting Nagios, the nagios.cmd permissions are reset to > > nagios:nagios. What can be the problem? > Sounds like when you updated you compiled with a different user and/or > group than your older version. I upgrade follow this [1] guide, using: ./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd make all make install Previously I did not make changes in the users or groups. These are: sparky:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# id nagios uid=1001(nagios) gid=1001(nagios) groups=1001(nagios),1002(nagcmd) sparky:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# id www-data uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data),1002(nagcmd) In case it is of utility, after to run the 'configure', this is the summary that I obtain: *** Configuration summary for nagios 3.0.1 05-16-2008 ***: General Options: ------------------------- Nagios executable: nagios Nagios user/group: nagios,nagios Command user/group: nagios,nagcmd Embedded Perl: no Event Broker: yes Install ${prefix}: /usr/local/nagios Lock file: ${prefix}/var/nagios.lock Check result directory: ${prefix}/var/spool/checkresults Init directory: /etc/init.d Apache conf.d directory: /etc/apache2/conf.d Mail program: /usr/bin/mail Host OS: linux-gnu Web Interface Options: ------------------------ HTML URL: <A href="http://localhost/nagios/">http://localhost/nagios/</A> CGI URL: <A href="http://localhost/nagios/cgi">http://localhost/nagios/cgi</A>-bin/ Traceroute (used by WAP): /usr/sbin/traceroute Thanks for your reply, Patrick. Regards, Daniel [1] <A href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/upgrading.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/upgrading.html</A> -- Daniel Bareiro - System Administrator Fingerprint: BFB3 08D6 B4D1 31B2 72B9 29CE 6696 BF1B 14E6 1D37 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Lenny - Linux user #188.598 </DIV> ********************************************************************** ***** IMPORTANT INFORMATION ***** This document should be read only by those persons to whom it is addressed and its content is not intended for use by any other persons. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately. Please also destroy and delete the message from your computer. Any unauthorised form of reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited. St George Bank Limited AFSL 240997, Advance Asset Management Limited AFSL 240902, St George Life Limited AFSL 240900, ASGARD Capital Management Limited AFSL 240695 and Securitor Financial Group Limited AFSL 240687 is not liable for the proper and complete transmission of the information contained in this communication, nor for any delay in its receipt. ********************************************************************** </BODY></HTML>