On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Justin Craig wrote: > 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 > > On 7/31/06, Patrick Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >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.
Without a slash at the beginning, it's a relative path. It's only going to be right if you're in the home directory. For example, try typing "cd usr/local/nagios/var/rw" from /home. It won't work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ 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
