On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was writing an event-handler which does ssh to the faulty box. It does not > work at > all, since $HOME was /root and not /var/log. ssh aborted since it could not > read > /root/.ssh/known_hosts. > > So please change the /etc/init.d/nagios which sets all environment variable.
Well, its not the init script, its /etc/passwd... nagios:x:100:101:nagios:/var/log/nagios:/bin/sh But why should the nagios user be able to read files within roots home directory? Let the nagios user use its own .ssh/known_hosts file... Danny -- Q: Gentoo is too hard to install = http://www.cyberdelia.de and I feel like whining. = [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Please see /dev/null. = (from the gentoo installer FAQ) = \o/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null