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I have a problem with the configuration files on Nagios XI. I set /usr/local/nagios/* to nagios:nagios 755 and everything looks ok. After make any change on the configuration and apply the configuration changes, some of the /etc/.cfg files are going back to nagios:user and the write conf files tool is failing with writing permission. Help!
Ileana
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 744 Jan 11 10:14 cgi.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 14771 Feb 16 15:35 commands.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 1113 Feb 16 15:35 contactgroups.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 1612 Feb 16 15:35 contacts.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 1437 Feb 16 15:35 contacttemplates.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 662 Feb 16 15:35 hostdependencies.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 664 Feb 16 15:35 hostescalations.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 682 Feb 16 15:35 hostextinfo.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 990 Feb 16 15:35 hostgroups.cfg
drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Feb 16 14:27 hosts
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 6101 Feb 16 15:35 hosttemplates.cfg
drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Feb 15 16:23 import
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 5714 Feb 15 16:23 nagios.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 2229 Jan 11 10:16 ndo2db.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 4723 Jan 11 10:16 ndomod.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 7207 Jan 11 10:16 nrpe.cfg
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 5345 Jan 11 10:16 nsca.cfg
drwxrwxr-x 4 nagios nagios 4096 Jan 11 10:16 pnp
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios users 210 Jan 11 10:14 resource.cfg

I had the same problelm. I find the at times I need to run this command. then you can save the config again.

chown apache.nagios /usr/local/nagios/etc/*.cfg

I have to do this every time I make a change to a host or service configuration when using nagios core. Then I write to the files and everything comes back normal again but when I go back to view the hosts or services anything I had just changed shows an Out of Sync status again. Not sure why I have to do this any time I edit a service our host config file. It's quite annoying.

I'm having the same issue. The .cfg files keep reverting back to nagios:nagios and I keep having to chown them to apache:nagios.

Some of these issues have be discussed on another thread.

http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... p=506#p506

Try this solution forwarded from one of our tech team members.

chown -R nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagios/etc
find /usr/local/nagios/etc -type d -exec chmod 775 '{}' + -o\
-type f -exec chmod 664 '{}' +

Lets see what happens I just ran the commands.

Ok, when we have an error of some sort and the process rolls back, it appears that the permissions get rolled back to nagios:users. However, that permissions changing script works great otherwise.

Yeah, that's something we'll probably have to figure out in future editions, but in the meantime I'm glad that script worked out.

What version of NagiosXI?
This should accentually be an obsolete method, replaced by code that was less-likely to change the permissions.

Nagios XI 2009R1.2

It's still a problem. I think there's still some remnants of code that causes permissions problems somewhere. It's happened enough here that I've had to implement a cron job to fix permissions.