On Jul 14, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Brian O'Mahony wrote: > 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.
> [r...@nagios servers]# ls -al /usr/local/nagios/var/r* > > /usr/local/nagios/var/rw: > total 2 > drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagcmd 1024 Jul 14 12:40 . > drwxrwxrwx 6 nagios nagios 1024 Jul 14 12:42 .. > prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagios 0 Jul 14 12:40 nagios.cmd Stop nagios and run 'make install-commandmode' from the original tarball you installed from or -- chmod 775 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw chmod g+s /usr/local/nagios/var/rw make sure that the user your web server runs as is a member of the nagcmd group restart apache, restart nagios. HTH -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ 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