chown: cannot access `/etc/nagios3/resource.cfg': No such file or directory

[Paul Belanger]

If you install nagios3-common, then configure the package as you see fit (removing /etc/nagios3/resource.conf) then try to install nagios3-cgi, the package will fail to install properly.

Adding password for user nagiosadmin
chown: cannot access `/etc/nagios3/resource.cfg': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing nagios3-cgi (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for the debdiff.

Seems to me removing all the permission setting in the postinst is the wrong way to fix this. How are those permissions going to get setup?

How about doing something like this instead?

test -f $en/resource.cfg && setperm root nagios 0640 $en/resource.cfg

NACK on the debdiff.

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Thanks!

[Paul Belanger (pabelanger)]

The issue is the file permission being changed are not part of this package. In fact, they are already handled in the nagios3-common.postinst script.

It should be noted this is the same fix that upstream has chosen[1] to use.

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-nagios/pkg-nagios3.git;a=blobdiff;f=debian/nagios3-cgi.postinst;h=6bf16f841aceeac04841067406e5f3d15f5fcbd6;hp=3dcea97c06739ef788be65e2e60bda48cff44bdf;hb=54e3dffab607f9ff9f4e08ae7e6ccd378efa9d49;hpb=45b3eb939649e8c867d155f81a09ece56b345afb

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Ah! that makes sense. Thanks for the new information.

ACK on the debdiff. The only change I will do before uploading is changing the version to 3.2.3-3ubuntu1 since we now have a Ubuntu delta.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nagios3 - 3.2.3-3ubuntu1

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nagios3 (3.2.3-3ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * Don't fix permissions in cgi postinst (LP: #931859)
 -- Paul Belanger <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:54:34 -0500