On Jun 8, 2008, at 7:48 AM, howard chen wrote: > > But seems when I restarted the nagios, permission reset, so I am > looking for the correct method to set the permission. > > > Below is the information which might be useful: > =================== > ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd > prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagcmd 0 Jun 8 20:46 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/ > nagios.cmd > > > id nagios > uid=504(nagios) gid=504(nagios) groups=504(nagios),505(nagcmd) > > > cat /etc/group | grep nagcmd > nagcmd:x:505:apache,nagios >
apache has been restarted since adding it to the nagcmd group? Also, if you have SELinux enabled, the quickstart only talks about setting context for share and sbin, not the rw directory. Apache is going to need write access to var/rw/nagios.cmd in order to write data to the pipe. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null