On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:18:21AM +0100, Andrew Hall wrote: > On 2009-05-14 04:47, Dennison Williams wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have been noticing that on a semi regular basis the > > /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd* files are getting chown'd as > > nagios:nagios and chmod'd 640. My web server is running as www-data and > > it needs to be able to read these files but every time they get changed > > the site goes all "wonky" (a technical term I am sure you are all > > familiar with). > > > > I am guessing there is some cron job that is handling this. A cursory > > look through the cron jobs that nagios runs did not reveal anything > > enlightening. I was wondering if there was any advice on how to handle > > this situation? > > I can't tell you what's changing it, but I can recommend some solutions: If something's changing periodically in the opsview config directory you can usually blame nagconfgen.pl > > 1. Add the webserver user to the nagios group. As you note the perms > are 640 so the group can read the file. IIRC this is included in the nagvis config documentation on the docs site anyway, isn't it?
Stu -- >From the prompt of Stu Teasdale You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks. _______________________________________________ Opsview-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opsview.org/listinfo/opsview-users
