SElinux causes Nagios issues?

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Jonathan Carpenter wrote:

> (13)Permission denied: exec of '/usr/local/nagios/sbin/status.cgi' 
> failed, referer: http://127.0.0.1/nagios/side.html
>
> I read from a message board online that I may need to disable SElinux. 
> Has anyone else had this problem or have any ideas why I might be 
> getting this error? And if it could be SElinux how do I shut it off? I 
> have edited /etc/selinux/conf and specified disabled but I am not sure 
> how to turn it off.


Probably it's selinux. IIRC, the policy for apache is set to run only 
programs inside /var/www/ and ~*/public_html (and this is only after you 
enable that option). You can try running "setenforce permissive" and 
restarting apache.. If it works, use system-config-securitylevel to 
disable selinux (or if you dont have that installed, I think the file 
you need to edit is /etc/sysconfig/selinux ).
If that's really the case, I'd suggest talking to the Nagios people and 
asking them to work with the selinux guys to make a nagios policy.. 
After all , nagios is one excelent tool that would benefit from the 
extra selinux protection...

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Pedro Macedo