No, it's not, but that doesn't matter. I can manually execute the plugin, but not via NRPE, so I think something isn't running as nagios. Top says NRPE is running as nagios though. What user does the NRPE run it's scripts as on the remote machine?
On 23-Apr-09, at 3:01 PM, Patrick Morris wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Adam Mooz wrote: > >> I'm using Nagios and NRPE to monitor some system logs on a remote >> system via check_logfiles. >> >> Here's the setup: >> -user 'nagio's is part of the 'adm' group >> -/var/log/syslog is readable by the 'adm' group >> -manually executing check_logfiles as nagios (sudo -u nagios ./ >> check_logfiles <etc>) works >> -executing remotely via NRPE fails >> -NRPE is being started via xinetd and running as 'nagios' >> >> changing syslog to be world readable fixes the problem, however it >> does just that; leaves the syslog file world readable. This behavior >> is being repeated for several other log files as well (mysql, apache) >> where despite nagios being part of the appropriate groups still not >> remotely readable. This is clearly a problem of something running as >> a different user. >> >> Ideas? > > If I were a betting man I'd say that adm is not the nagios user's > primary group, and/or you've specified a different group in your > xinetd > config. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ 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
