/usr/local/nagios/var/live.sock: Permission denied.

[kaushal...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I have build livestatus 1.5.0p24  (/usr/local/nagios/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o) on CentOS Stream release 8 by referring to  https://checkmk.com/download/sources-download. 

#/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

Nagios Core 4.4.6

Copyright (c) 2009-present Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors

Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad

Last Modified: 2020-04-28

License: GPL

Website: https://www.nagios.org

Reading configuration data...

   Read main config file okay...

   Read object config files okay...

Running pre-flight check on configuration data...

Checking objects...

Checked 92 services.

Checked 10 hosts.

Checked 1 host groups.

Checked 0 service groups.

Checked 2 contacts.

Checked 2 contact groups.

Checked 30 commands.

Checked 5 time periods.

Checked 0 host escalations.

Checked 0 service escalations.

Checking for circular paths...

Checked 10 hosts

Checked 0 service dependencies

Checked 0 host dependencies

Checked 5 timeperiods

Checking global event handlers...

Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...

Checking misc settings...

Total Warnings: 0

Total Errors:   0

Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check

# rpm -qa | grep thruk

thruk-base-2.44.3-11112.1.x86_64

thruk-2.44.3-11112.1.x86_64

thruk-plugin-reporting-2.44.3-11112.1.x86_64

libthruk-2.44.2-0.x86_64

#

When i restart or reload nagios service I encounter using the below command

#systemctl reload nagios.service 

prod: ERROR: 491: failed to connect - failed to connect to /usr/local/nagios/var/live.sock: Permission denied. (/usr/local/nagios/var/live.sock)

I have to run the below command to fix the issue.

#chown apache.apache /usr/local/nagios/var/live.sock  

# cd /usr/local/nagios/

# ls -l

total 12

drwxr-xr-x  2 nagios nagios   87 Oct 14 13:48 bin

drwxrwxr-x  4 nagios nagios  180 Oct 14 14:04 etc

drwxr-xr-x  2 nagios nagios    6 Sep 30 13:31 include

drwxr-xr-x  3 nagios nagios   27 Oct 14 13:48 lib

drwxrwxr-x  3 nagios nagios 4096 Oct 12 08:42 libexec

drwxrwxr-x  2 nagios nagios 4096 Sep 30 13:03 sbin

drwxrwxr-x 15 nagios nagios 4096 Sep 30 13:31 share

drwxrwxr-x  5 nagios nagios  263 Oct 14 20:18 var

#

# id nagios

uid=1000(nagios) gid=1000(nagios) groups=1000(nagios),1001(nagcmd)

# id apache

uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache),1000(nagios),1001(nagcmd)

Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. 

Best Regards,

Kaushal