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Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2016 9:05 am**

Hi,

I have to rerun the below chown command every time whenever i have to restart the nagios service

chown nagios:nagcmd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
chown nagios:nagcmd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
systemctl restart nagios.service
cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)

Nagios Core 4.2.0
Copyright (c) 2009-present Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
Last Modified: 08-01-2016
License: GPL

Any help will be highly appreciable.

Regards,

Kaushal

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2016 11:27 am**

Can you post the instructions you used when initially installing? It looks like the variables for permissions are getting set on start.

What are they getting set to after you start the service? (before running the chown)

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2016 1:04 pm**

Hi Robert,

cat /etc/init.d/nagios -> http://sprunge.us/dJSU. I am following http://tecadmin.net/install-nagios-core ... ntos-rhel/. Please correct me if i am doing wrong.

Regards,

Kaushal

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2016 5:05 pm**

If you do restart the nagios daemon, what do the permissions change to?
Can you run the following and post the output?

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chage -l nagios
grep nag /etc/passwd
grep nag /etc/group

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2016 5:07 pm**

Also, can you show us the results of

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ls -ld /usr/local/nagios/var/rw

We want to make sure you have the group sticky bit on the directory and the group should be nagios

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drwxrwsr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Aug 16 05:59 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw

Additionally your nagios user should be a member of the nagios and nagcmd group

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# cat /etc/group|grep nag
nagios:x:500:nagios,apache
nagcmd:x:501:nagios,apache

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2016 9:51 pm**

[root@e2e-13-130 nagios]# ls -ld /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
drwxrwsr-x. 2 nagios nagios 4096 Aug 17 08:04 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
[root@e2e-13-130 nagios]# chage -l nagios
Last password change : Aug 03, 2016
Password expires : never
Password inactive : never
Account expires : never
Minimum number of days between password change : 0
Maximum number of days between password change : 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires : 7
[root@e2e-13-130 nagios]# grep nag /etc/passwd
systemd-network997:996:systemd Network Management:/:/sbin/nologin
nagios1000:/home/nagios:/bin/bash
[root@e2e-13-130 nagios]# grep nag /etc/group
nagios1000:nagios,apache
nagcmd1001:apache,nagios
[root@e2e-13-130 nagios]# cat /etc/group|grep nag
nagios1000:nagios,apache
nagcmd1001:apache,nagios
[root@e2e-13-130 nagios]#

Posted: **Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:10 pm**

When you compiled Core, did you run the configure command like below?

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./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd

Try and recompiling Core by following this guide and see if that fixes the issue.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... Source.pdf

Is selinux enabled on your server? Run the following command and post the output to see if it is enabled.

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getenforce

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