[ale] Need help with Nagios

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Tue Jan 26 14:54:20 EST 2010 

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> Right
>
> One point in my email was that there is a quick install guide - that includes steps for Apache that might help.
>
> I was suggesting for a new install it might make more sense to start with Nagios 3.x then work out web issues if any using that version.  Nagios comes with a fair amount of cgi and some html of its own so the quick install guides (I used the Fedora one when I did RHEL5) can help get you started on the right foot.   There may still be issues to work out but why do it with an already obsolete version?
>
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> Subject: Re: [ale] Need help with Nagios
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> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Lightner, Jeff <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>>> Curious why you're doing a new install of Nagios 2.x given that 3.x has
>>> been out for quite some time?
>>>
>>> By the way since Ubuntu is based on Debian if you do go the 3.x route
>>> the Ubuntu quickstart guide here my help:
>>> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-ubuntu.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Richard Bronosky
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:24 AM
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>>> Subject: Re: [ale] Need help with Nagios
>>>
>>> I can't give you a link because I'm on my BB, but goto
>>> http://httpd.apache.org/ and search for DocumentRoot. Your problem is
>>> likely due to the use of a symlink. The default behavior is to be
>>> strict about requiring that the real path be within the DocumentRoot.
>>> I find that I must always link from my project directory into my
>>> docroot (real, fake) not from my docroot to my project (fake, real).
>>> Even though the later is how I'd prefer to organize things. It's a
>>> security issue. If someone were to find a way to create a symlink via
>>> an exploit, they wouldn't be able to use it.
>>>
>>> On 1/25/10, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Guys,
>>>>
>>>> I am helping a friend with Nagios 2.6, on Debian 4.0. The install
>>>> appears to be ok, but the problem is that when we access the pages, we
>>>> are seeing this error.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
>>>> <html><head>
>>>> <title>500 Internal Server Error</title>
>>>> </head><body>
>>>> <h1>Internal Server Error</h1>
>>>> <p>The server encountered an internal error or
>>>> misconfiguration and was unable to complete
>>>> your request.</p>
>>>> <p>Please contact the server administrator,
>>>>  webmaster at localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred,
>>>> and anything you might have done that may have
>>>> caused the error.</p>
>>>> <p>More information about this error may be available
>>>> in the server error log.</p>
>>>> <hr>
>>>> <address>Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2 mod_jk/1.2.18
>>>> mod_python/3.2.10 Python/2.4.4 PHP/5.2.0-8+etch16 mod_ssl/2.2.3
>>>> OpenSSL/0.9.8c mod_perl/2.0.2 Perl/v5.8.8 Server at localhost Port
>>>> 80</address>
>>>> </body></html>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I look in the error log, I am seeing this...
>>>>
>>>> Mon Jan 25 23:35:53 2010] [error] [client 216.47.87.22] suexec policy
>>>> violation: see suexec log for more details, referer:
>>>> http://inferno.magidesign.com/nagios2/side.html
>>>> [Mon Jan 25 23:35:53 2010] [error] [client 216.47.87.22] Premature end
>>>> of script headers: history.cgi, referer:
>>>> http://inferno.magidesign.com/nagios2/side.html
>>>> [Mon Jan 25 23:35:55 2010] [error] [client 216.47.87.22] suexec policy
>>>> violation: see suexec log for more details, referer:
>>>> http://inferno.magidesign.com/nagios2/side.html
>>>> [Mon Jan 25 23:35:55 2010] [error] [client 216.47.87.22] Premature end
>>>> of script headers: tac.cgi, referer:
>>>> http://inferno.magidesign.com/nagios2/side.html
>>>>
>>>> When I look at suexec.log I am seeing this
>>>>
>>>> 2010-01-25 23:35:53]: uid: (117/dspam) gid: (120/120) cmd: history.cgi
>>>> [2010-01-25 23:35:53]: command not in docroot
>>>> (/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios2/history.cgi)
>>>> [2010-01-25 23:35:55]: uid: (117/dspam) gid: (120/120) cmd: tac.cgi
>>>> [2010-01-25 23:35:55]: command not in docroot
>>>> (/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios2/tac.cgi)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have checked it looks like all are owned by nagios  with the group
>>>> www-data, but the uid appears to be dspam? Do I need make that nagios
>>>> is uid 117 and gid 120 to work? What is the docroot? What do I need to
>>>> check there.
>>>>
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>>
>> I will give that a shoot. The reason, it Debain 4.0 on ppc and it a
>> production box. But again Jeff I will give that a shot.
>>
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>
> Guys, the same thing as Nagios3 as two, there has to be something in
> apache that doing it.
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I installed Nagios3 it much better, many thanks.

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