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Hey - Thanks - that gave me the clue I needed. It turned out that there is a "nagios" group in my centralized authentication service, and that prevented the nagios group from ever being created locally. There was no nagios group in /etc/group, but when I would do things like "id nagio...

Hello - This seems to be a fairly common problem, but nothing has been working for me yet so far. I am getting the error message "Could not open log file '/var/log/nagios/nagios.log' for reading" when I try to access links in the web interface like "Notifications" or "Event ...

I figured it out...ultimately it was a problem with the way I had configured CPAN. During initial setup, CPAN gives you the choice of where CPAN will install the downloaded Perl modules: local lib (the default), sudo, or manual. I chose local lib and as a result, CPAN was created under my local user...

Hello - I'm running Nagios Core 4.3.4 and trying to get some Oracle database checks going on a Linux box. I've seen a few other people run into a similar problem on these boards, but I can't quite seem to figure out what the missing piece here is. I am trying to use the check_oracle_health to connec...

I updated to Nagios 4.3.4 and also switched the nagios user login shell from /sbin/nologin to /bin/bash. If I execute the following command as root, I still get this permission error: nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg However, if I execute that command as the nagios user (I can now login with it due ...

Hey - Here are the settings you requested: # sestatus SELinux status: disabled # grep apache /etc/passwd apache:x:48:48:Apache:/usr/share/httpd:/sbin/nologin # grep apache /etc/group apache:x:48:nagios nagios:x:501:apache # grep nag /etc/group apache:x:48:nagios nagios:x:501:apache # grep nag /etc/p...

No luck...I tried changing the file owner to match yours...even tried to assign "other" to be able to write to contacts.cfg...but the "permissions" issue remains with this contact.cfg when running nagios -v /etc/nagios/objects/nagios.cfg.

Hello - I run Nagios Core 4.3.2, and after applying the latest patches available from EPEL, I've started to get a permissions error when I run the syntax check command nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg. Nagios continues to run without apparent issue, but here is the output I get when I run the syntax...