Nagios problem on FC3

[Kenneth Geddings Jr.]

gb spam wrote:

>>Hi everyone,
>>i have installed nagios 1.2 for testing purposes and  there is an error
>>shown in the web interface which is shown as follows:
>>
>>Whoops!  Error: Could not read host and service status information!
>>and on Event-log: Error: Could not open log file
>>'/var/log/nagios/nagios.log' for reading!
>>    
>>
>
>What user is your web server running as, and does it have access to
>/var/log/nagios/nagios.log?  (the answers are most likely "apache" and
>"no")
>
>Assuming that is the problem, you'll need to arrange access to
>/var/log/nagios/nagios for apache.  there are number of ways to
>achieve this, in increasing order of desirability
>
>   1.   chmod 755 the file, its directory and all parent directories
>(very bad move)
>   2.   use groups (bad move - if something else needs to do a similar
>hting you'll end up jumping through a few group hoops).
>   3.   use file acls to give access (most elegant, very secure)
>   4.   configure it to use a different log file which is easy to give
>apache priv to read
>   5.   something else that i've not thought (most likely)
>
>of course, the file might not actually exist - in which case starting
>the nagios daemon should resolve that.
>
>  
>
what version of fedora are you using?