Lars Schenk » Nagios http://lars-schenk.com IT-Services :: Software-Development since 1980 :: Freelancer since 1988 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:51:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Nagios commands via web-interface on Debian http://lars-schenk.com/nagios-commands-via-web-interface-on-debian/446 http://lars-schenk.com/nagios-commands-via-web-interface-on-debian/446#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:58:15 +0000 Lars Schenk http://lars-schenk.com/?p=446 Ups, I did it again – when I upgraded to Debian GNU/Linux 5 (lenny) and Nagios3 I stumbled about this nagios error when I try to send directs commands via the web-interface:

Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’!

In “/etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg” the “check_external_commands=1″ was already set. So there was something more required to make it run on Debian…

Deep in my memory I know that there was a debian way to solve this user right related problem. This time I’ll write it down here – perhaps I’ll find it more easily when I upgrade to Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (codenamed squeeze) and/or Nagios4.

/etc/init.d/nagios3 stop
dpkg-statoverride –update –add nagios www-data 2710 /var/lib/nagios3/rw
dpkg-statoverride –update –add nagios nagios 751 /var/lib/nagios3
/etc/init.d/nagios3 start

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