Disabled Hosts Still Monitored

[jbennett]

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[root@nagiosxivm rw]# ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagcmd 0 Aug 13 14:19 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
[root@nagiosxivm rw]# cat /etc/group|grep nag
nagios:x:500:apache
nagcmd:x:501:
nagioscmd:x:502:
nagiocmd:x:503:nagios,nobody

No, I did not try to recompile outside of the install/upgrade scripts as far as I know. The individual who installed and configured prior to my taking over may have.

[scottwilkerson]

So when you restart nagios is it leaving the permissions as:

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[root@nagiosxivm rw]# ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagcmd 0 Aug 13 14:19 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

This is how it is supposed to be.

[jbennett]

The permissions do remain the same, however, when I try to schedule downtime, or acknowledge a host or service being down, I get the error:

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Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for update!

As stated in my previous post, if I chmod 777 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd, I'm able to schedule down-time and to acknowledge without error.

[lmiltchev]

I am not sure why you have all these entries in the /etc/group:

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nagios:x:500:apache
nagcmd:x:501:
nagioscmd:x:502:
nagiocmd:x:503:nagios,nobody

You should probably have only these:

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nagios:x:500:nagios,apache
nagcmd:x:501:nagios,apache

Note that nagios and apache must be added to nagios and nagcmd!

Hope this helps.