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.
On 25.11.2010 11:39, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
On 11/25/2010 12:12 AM, Alexander Haas wrote:
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
On 11/25/2010 09:18 PM, Alexander Haas wrote:
On 25.11.2010 11:39, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
On 11/25/2010 12:12 AM, Alexander Haas wrote:
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
Hi Nagios users,
this is my first post. I encountered a behavior I am not able to
understand. Well, I guess I did understand it, but I don't know how to
counter it :)
When I write a plug-in for Nagios it is executed as nagios:nagios. Yet
$HOME is set to /root.
My /etc/password and nagios's
Alexander,
It sounds like you are saying that you login as root, then su to nagios. If
that's the case, make sure that you use su - nagios
The hyphen tells su to use the environmental variables of the user that you are
switching to. Without using the hyphen, it continues to use the
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
