Francis Dube wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Nagios nagios-2.12_1 with NRPE nrpe2-2.11_1 to check if my > display is working properly. I'm taking a screenshot every 4 minutes and > then i compare it with the last screenshot. My script is working very > well when it's ran locally but when i'm calling it from the server the > screenshot isn't taken.
Are you running it as the user NRPE is running as when you're taking the screenshot locally? > I tought it was a right problem on the Xorg > server, but i tried with "xhost +" (which do "access control disabled, > clients can connect from any host"). Both ways i run the script with the > user 'nagios'. The rest of the commands in the scripts work fine, the > only problem is with the screenshot which is taken using this command : > import -display :0 -window root /afolder/myscreenshot.png > > I also tried to run the script over shh (ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_news) and this method is working as fine > as locally. So i think there's something wrong with the way NRPE execute > my script. > > Anyone got an idea of the reason why the screenshot isn't working when i > run the script with NRPE ? > The only thing I can imagine is access problems. By default, only root can snoop on other user's X sessions, so for that to work for nrpe the X session ought to be owned by the nrpe user. I'm not well-versed in X enough to give a definite answer though, so don't trust my word on it. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
