Re: [Puppet Users] Nagios and www-data users.

2012-09-05 Thread Darin Perusich
There should be a "nagcmd" group which both nagios and your apache user are members of. The nagios.cmd pipe should have permission of 0660 and ownership of nagios:nagcmd. If you were using check_mk livestatus then the livestatus.cmd socket would have the same perms and ownership. Usually this is t

[Puppet Users] Nagios and www-data users.

2012-09-05 Thread Douglas Garstang
I'm sure people have hit this problem before. In my nagios module, the nagios command pipe file at /var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd is owned by the nagios user, but needs to be written to by the www-data user. Adding the www-user to the nagios group is one solution, but that requires that the nagios