Nagios External Command fails.

[Maxime Alarie]

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Eero Volotinen
Sent: 25 November 2010 15:47
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: Nagios External Command fails.

2010/11/25 Maxime Alarie <malarie at processia.com>:
> Good day,
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> I am new to  nagios.
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> I have installed Nagios3 on a  Ubuntu Server VM, and I am learning it.  I
> have installed Nagios3, a with the nsclient on my own  Windows laptop as
> well.
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> I can see my laptop  is UP on  the Nagios3's web inrterface, but that's
> about it.. The way I  have cretaed my config file for my laptop is  by
> copying the localhost_nagios2.cfg file, then replaced  127.0.0.1 by my IP
> and  localhost by my hostname, and renamed the file  to penang_nagios2.cfg
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> When I go to the interface, I select my laptop on the list and then click
> Re-schedule the next check of this host..  I get this error message:
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> Error: Could not stat() command file '/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd'!
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> The external command file may be missing, Nagios may not be running, and/or
> Nagios may not be checking external commands.
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> An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for processing.
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>  Any help would be  apreciated.
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This is known bug in ubuntu, see
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server-bugs/2009-June/013748.html
for fix.

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Eero

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Wow.. Thanks much, that fixed my problem!!

I really appreciate your help Eero!