Nagios problem on FC3

Uwe Lingner develop at monetron.com
Thu Apr 28 07:46:29 UTC 2005


Kenneth Geddings Jr. schrieb:

> 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?

[SOLVED]
Nagios on Fedora FC3
The problem was selinux. I was trying setenforce 0 ... and it worked.
So i had to configure the security level for the apache httpd deamon and 
set setenforce back to 1.

Thank you for your replies !!
Uwe











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