Replying to myself, the solution was to add "apache" to the "nagios" group in /etc/group.
Obviously this implies other possible solutions. The RPM did not do this, though. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672074 -Jim On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Jim Nachlin <jim.nach...@gawker.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a new Nagios 3.2.3 installation from RPM, under RHEL 6.2. The > daemon runs fine and alerts and sends email. The web interface is > telling me the standard "Error: Could not read object configuration > data!". A check of the config file comes back with a few warnings and > no errors. The warnings are all about hosts with no services defined. > > Apache/2.2.15, perl 5.10.1, PHP 5.3.3. > > The nagios user owns all config files. I have tried letting apache > and nagios own what's under /usr/share/nagios/html/ but that did not > help the issue. > > These same config files also work on another Nagios machine I have > running in the same network. > > I don't see any errors in nagios.log, either. > > Can anyone suggest where I can start to track down this problem? > > Thanks! > > -Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ 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