External Command integration fails

Asked by Daniel Hagan

When installing the nagios3 package (instead of downloading source and building myself) I've noticed that the ability to use the "external command" functionality of nagios is broken. The external command pipe (/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd) is owned by nagios:nagios mode 660. However, the CGIs that the web interface uses to submit external commands to the pipeline run as www-data:www-data.

I've "fixed" it in my current environment by changing nagios to run as group www-data and fixed the permissions and ownership on the /var/lib/nagios3 directory tree. But it seems like this functionality should either work or the additional required steps should be documented in comments in the nagios.cfg file.

I didn't want to submit this as a bug since I'm new to Ubuntu (my prior experience is with FreeBSD, IRIX & HP-UX). Is there a suggestion on the "right way" to handle this in Ubuntu?

Thanks,

Daniel

Technical details:

uname -a

Linux brt-vm-01 2.6.32-22-server #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 14:34:48 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said :
#1

Daniel, on nagios3 website [1] it states that the package will not automatically check for external updates, so what happens is that this upstream package from source-forge gets into debian, from there we merge it to Ubuntu and then whatever functionality was available in the upstream release is now in Ubuntu, what you did is perfectly fine :) and this attribute may not have been considered a big change by developers (I wouldn't think it is) so they left it how it is :) Now that you know what you did to chance it please be sure to document it (submit a doc file to nagios3 developers asking them to document the procedure you followed) and spread it :)

[1] http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/extcommands.html

P.S: please don't paste the entire dpkg output, it becomes distracting, just paste the output that is required by doing:
dpkg -l | grep package_name

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Daniel Hagan (daniel-kickidle) said :
#2

Sorry about the extra dpkg output. Since it was my first foray into this forum, I wanted to make sure I supplied enough info.

The documentation you linked is from Nagios v1. The Nagios v3 documents don't include the detailed steps on how to setup the external commands. I'll have to try using the v1 instructions to see if them still work in v3. If they do, I'll report back to the developers recommending that the v1 setup instructions be added to the v3 documentation.

Thanks for your assistance!

Daniel

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Matthias (matthias-opennomad) said :
#3

Here is what I did to get around the issue:

  chmod o+x /var/lib/nagios3
  chgrp www-data /var/lib/nagios3/rw
  chgrp www-data /var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd

That worked for me.

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