On Sun, June 8, 2008 8:48 am, howard chen wrote: > Hi, > > > I have followed the tutorial on this page to install nagios on CentOS5.1 > > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-fedora.html > > > > I have repeated the whole procedures at least "3" time, but still > can't get it to work... > > Say when I try to enable a notification in the web interface, error > always return: > > Error: Could not open command file > '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for update! > > > I know the problem came from permission, so I managed to get this work > by: > > > chmod 777 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd > > > 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 > > > > > Regards. > > > Howard > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > Check the permissions on the directory: /local/nagios/var/rw
The file is a pipe that is created when nagios is run. It should not exist is nagios is stopped. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
