On 11/25/2010 12:12 AM, Alexander Haas wrote: > Hi Jon, > > thank you for getting back on me. Of course I did do a su - nagios for > my tests. I fact all my console tests run fine. I think it's Nagois > doing some kind of su in its internals which causes my plug-in to get a > wrong $HOME inherited. The bad behavior only occurs when executed by the > actual Nagios setup. >
Nagios just drops privileges. It doesn't handle parsing environment variables already set by the user. And for all it knows, it could be wrong if it tries to do so. You could set whatever vars you want in /etc/sysconfig/nagios though and have them work properly for every check Nagios runs. You can use shell from there, so HOME=~nagios would be perfectly valid. The /etc/sysconfig thing only works on reasonably recent versions of Nagios btw, but setting the vars in the init-script would have much the same effect. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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
