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Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2020 4:50 pm**

Error: Could not stat() command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'!

The external command file may be missing, Nagios may not be running, and/or Nagios may not be checking external commands.

An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for processing.

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This was working. I added my user to the Nagios group I am not sure if this broke this or not.

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[alan@Svr-Monitor ~]$ grep nag /etc/group
nagios:x:1001:apache,nagios
nagcmd:x:1002:apache,nagios
[alan@Svr-Monitor ~]$

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[alan@Svr-Monitor ~]$ cd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/
[alan@Svr-Monitor rw]$ ll
total 0
prw-rw----. 1 nagios nagcmd 0 Mar  6 13:39 nagios.cmd
srw-rw----. 1 nagios nagcmd 0 Mar  6 13:39 nagios.qh
[alan@Svr-Monitor rw]$

I also ran all of these commands from another form I found:

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usermod -G nagcmd nagios
usermod -G nagcmd apache
chown nagios:nagcmd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
chown nagios:nagcmd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

It was on this nagios topic - https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... =7&t=27662

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2020 5:05 pm**

One thing I see that changed was the getenforce changed to Enforcing I think it used to be Permissive.

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[alan@Svr-Monitor objects]$ getenforce
Enforcing
[alan@Svr-Monitor objects]$ grep nag /etc/group
nagios:x:1001:apache,nagios
nagcmd:x:1002:apache,nagios
[alan@Svr-Monitor objects]$ ls -al /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
total 0
drwxrwsr-x. 2 nagios nagcmd  41 Mar  6 13:39 .
drwxrwxr-x. 5 nagios nagios 191 Mar  6 14:00 ..
prw-rw----. 1 nagios nagcmd   0 Mar  6 13:39 nagios.cmd
srw-rw----. 1 nagios nagcmd   0 Mar  6 13:39 nagios.qh
[alan@Svr-Monitor objects]$

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2020 5:19 pm**

I also have authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
in the cgi.cfg file.

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2020 5:43 pm**

I ended up fixing this by changing getenforce back to Permissive. But by doing this it kicked me out of the nagios group. I am guessing if I add my self back to the nagios group it will put it back into Enforcing. Is there anyway to add my user account to the nagios group and keep getenforce Permissive mode?

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2020 6:07 pm**

I got this all working now. I was able to re-add myself to the nagios group and permissive mode is still there and I can put things in downtime.

Posted: **Mon Mar 09, 2020 10:17 am**

Alan wrote:I got this all working now. I was able to re-add myself to the nagios group and permissive mode is still there and I can put things in downtime.

Great!

Glad to hear you got it working!

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