The permissions of /etc/nagios in the latest nagios-common rpm are incorrect: $ rpm -qlvp nagios-common-3.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm | grep /etc/nagios drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 0 Apr 25 03:05 /etc/nagios They should be 0755 instead of 0775. Note that /etc/nagios also appears in the nrpe rpm, with different (but correct) permissions: $ rpm -qlvp nrpe-2.13-1.el6.x86_64.rpm | grep /etc/nagios drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Sep 17 2012 /etc/nagios
Ticket reassigned to the nrpe component.
The problem has already been solved. Please upgrade to nrpe-2.14-3 available in EPEL-Testing as it now requires the nagios-common package. $ rpm -qpR nrpe-2.14-3.el6.x86_64.rpm ... nagios-common ... $ rpm -qf /etc/nagios/ nagios-common-3.5.0-1.el6.x86_64
The problem I reported (Incorrect permissions for /etc/nagios) is still present in the latest nagios-common rpm: $ rpm -qlvp nagios-common-3.5.0-5.fc20.x86_64.rpm drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 15 18:16 /etc/nagios drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 15 18:16 /usr/lib64/nagios drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 0 Jun 15 18:16 /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios 0 Jun 15 18:16 /var/spool/nagios The permissions of /etc/nagios should be 755 and not 775.