After what seemed like days of messing with permissions, SELinux was the problem. To solve the dreaded Could not stat() command file ‘/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd’!” error, when trying to reschedule a test or acknowledge an alert, a simple
setenforce 0
was the solution. Though, permissions do also have to be correct.
chown nagios.nagcmd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw chmod g+rwx /usr/local/nagios/var/rw chmod g+s /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
Jay Everson has over 20 years experience supporting production infrastructure and software R&D Labs. He has 12+ years experience in management and has also spent time in Software Engineer, Infrastructure Architect and Team Lead roles.