Hi,

I seem to be having issues with permissions and cant see the wood for the trees. Below are the files and permissions. I have also tried changing the permission to 775, which didn't help any. I am using an external database, www-data is correct. Nothing else is different outside the installation instructions. Any help would be appreciated.

drwsr-sr-x 4 www-data nagios 4096 2008-09-05 17:04 backup
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 10458 2008-05-20 16:02 cgi.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 5619 2008-09-08 16:56 checkcommands.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 0 2008-09-05 15:34 contactgroups.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 0 2008-09-05 15:34 contacts.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 0 2008-09-08 17:00 hostescalations.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 0 2008-09-08 17:00 hostextinfo.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 0 2008-09-05 15:35 hostgroups.cfg
drwsr-sr-x 2 www-data nagios 4096 2008-09-08 16:29 hosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26 2008-05-20 16:05 htpasswd.users
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 4991 2008-09-05 16:26 misccommands.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 43922 2008-09-05 17:04 nagios.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 1340 2008-05-20 16:02 resource.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 0 2008-09-08 17:00 serviceescalations.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 0 2008-09-08 17:01 serviceextinfo.cfg
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 0 2008-09-05 15:35 servicegroups.cfg
drwsr-sr-x 2 www-data nagios 4096 2008-09-05 17:16 services
-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data nagios 1701 2008-09-05 16:14 timeperiods.cfg

Write host configurations ...
Configuration file successfully written!
Write service configurations ...
Configuration file successfully written!
Write hostgroups.cfg ...
Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
Write servicegroups.cfg ...
Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!

Write timeperiods.cfg ... Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
Write misccommands.cfg ... Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
Write checkcommands.cfg ... Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
Write contacts.cfg ... Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
Write contactgroups.cfg ... Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
Write servicedependencies.cfg ... Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
Write hostdependencies.cfg ... Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
Write serviceescalations.cfg ... Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
Write hostescalations.cfg ... Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
Write serviceextinfo.cfg ... Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!
Write hostextinfo.cfg ... Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)!

Steve

Check the permissions of your main configuration directory (etc/nagios or where the configfiles are in) and set its permissions to the same as your services subdirectory inside them.

hmm, maybe i didn't quite follow the documentation!! Thanks for your help.

I am having one other difficulty. I dont seem to be able to restart the nagios process form nagiosql. I am getting the following error:

Nagios daemon is not running, cannot send restart command!

Can you help?

Thanks
Steve

the following is configured.

/usr/local/nagios/bin

-rwxr-x--- 1 nagios www-data 577576 2008-05-20 16:02 nagios

This is checked by your pid (or lock) file. Check the path to your nagios.pid or nagios.lock file in settings.ini.

Sorry!! I normally read through the documentation with a fine toothcomb, which I clearly didn't in this case. Once again, thanks for all your help!!