Nagios problem on FC3
Kenneth Geddings Jr.
kgiris2005 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 00:11:26 UTC 2005
gb spam wrote:
>>Hi everyone,
>>i have installed nagios 1.2 for testing purposes and there is an error
>>shown in the web interface which is shown as follows:
>>
>>Whoops! Error: Could not read host and service status information!
>>and on Event-log: Error: Could not open log file
>>'/var/log/nagios/nagios.log' for reading!
>>
>>
>
>What user is your web server running as, and does it have access to
>/var/log/nagios/nagios.log? (the answers are most likely "apache" and
>"no")
>
>Assuming that is the problem, you'll need to arrange access to
>/var/log/nagios/nagios for apache. there are number of ways to
>achieve this, in increasing order of desirability
>
> 1. chmod 755 the file, its directory and all parent directories
>(very bad move)
> 2. use groups (bad move - if something else needs to do a similar
>hting you'll end up jumping through a few group hoops).
> 3. use file acls to give access (most elegant, very secure)
> 4. configure it to use a different log file which is easy to give
>apache priv to read
> 5. something else that i've not thought (most likely)
>
>of course, the file might not actually exist - in which case starting
>the nagios daemon should resolve that.
>
>
>
what version of fedora are you using?
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