Problem (Backend: live_1): Unable to connect to the /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live in backend live_1: Permission denied

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dol.meun

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Saturday, December 11th 2010, 3:22am

Problem (Backend: live_1): Unable to connect to the /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live in backend live_1: Permission denied

Dear all,
After I install mklivestatus and configure with nagios work successful as event log
Dec 10 11:55:17 localhost nagios: Event broker module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o' deinitialized successfully.
Dec 10 11:55:18 localhost nagios: Nagios 3.2.3 starting... (PID=14637)
Dec 10 11:55:18 localhost nagios: Local time is Fri Dec 10 11:55:18 ICT 2010
Dec 10 11:55:18 localhost nagios: LOG VERSION: 2.0
Dec 10 11:55:19 localhost nagios: livestatus: Setting debug level to 1
Dec 10 11:55:19 localhost nagios: livestatus: Version 1.1.6p1 initializing. Socket path: '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live'
Dec 10 11:55:19 localhost nagios: livestatus: Livestatus has been brought to you by Mathias Kettner
Dec 10 11:55:19 localhost nagios: livestatus: Please visit us at http://mathias-kettner.de/
Dec 10 11:55:19 localhost nagios: livestatus: Created UNIX control socket at /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live
Dec 10 11:55:19 localhost nagios: livestatus: Opened UNIX socket /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live
Dec 10 11:55:19 localhost nagios: livestatus: successfully finished initialization
Dec 10 11:55:19 localhost nagios: Event broker module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o' initialized successfully.

And after I install nagvis by using live_1 as backend but when I access by web it show error message that (Backend: live_1): Unable to connect to the /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live in backend live_1: Permission denied.
and my permission
[root@localhost ~]# ls -la /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live
srw-rw---- 1 nagios nagios 0 Dec 10 11:55 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live
and alos my web user in group nagios too

could any one help me to solve this problem.
Thank in advance,
Meun DOl

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Wolfgang

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Saturday, December 11th 2010, 9:11am

Are you able to submit commands from the Nagios web interface?
Switch to the web user and change to /usr/local/nagios/var/rw. Execute "touch testfile" to check that you have sufficient permissions ("rm testfile" afterwards).
Check the Apache logs for other messages.

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dol.meun

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Tuesday, December 14th 2010, 3:23am

Thank for you reply I will test it.

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dol.meun

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Saturday, December 25th 2010, 3:19am

root of error

thank Wolfgang for you help, now I can find the root of error. It because on file /etc/selinux/config I put enforced and after I change enforced to disable every think are fine. My nagios can check external command and Backend: live_1 working.
regards,
Meun Dol

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Wolfgang

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Saturday, December 25th 2010, 9:57am

You can try to use something like "chcon -R -t httpd_sys_script_rw_t /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/" to set the permissions. I haven't tested if it works and it might fail because the files are created during startup of Nagios.

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