On 13 December 2011 16:11, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051...@gmail.com> wrote: > hey guys im having permissions issues and getting the following message > > Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)! > > i did some googling and game up with > http://www.nagiosql.org/forum/installation-issues/195-permissions.html > > should i have some template config files somehwere? From what I am > seeing i do not have any demo configs showing up anywhere
On my system, the user "www-data" (the apache web server user) is added to the "nagios" group. So, in the /etc/group file we have:- nagios:x:1001:www-data If www-data (or whichever user your Apache daemon runs as) isn't in the 'nagios' group, you should be able to add it something like so .. usermod -G nagios www-data hth, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Systems Optimization Self Assessment Improve efficiency and utilization of IT resources. Drive out cost and improve service delivery. Take 5 minutes to use this Systems Optimization Self Assessment. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51450054/ _______________________________________________ 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