Dear Arno, Thx for your tips. It works with udev .
Best Regards, Herman > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:05 PM > To: Nagios Users mailinglist > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Accessing /dev/ttyUSB0 to send SMS > > Hallo, > > On 1/22/2007 10:52 AM, Herman (ISTD) wrote: > > May be sudo could solve this problem but not permanently, since sudo > > only add root rights to user for certain period of time. > > Is there any way to make devs such as serial line and USB controlled by > > certain user ? > > That's done by another part of the OS, for example udev. > > Basically you configure how device links are created for hot-plugged > devices. > > You'll have to tell us the OS and its version at least... or look up the > documentation for your system, or ask the mailing list / support / frum > for your OS. > > > Another question, is it common to run nagios as root ? > > Depends. > > I strongly adviso to not run Nagios as root - only processes that really > need root permissions should be run as such, and Nagios definitely does > not need root access to your system. > > Arno > > > Thx. > > > > Regards, > > > > Herman > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) [mailto:andy.shellam- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 4:12 PM > >>To: Herman (ISTD) > >>Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist > >>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Accessing /dev/ttyUSB0 to send SMS > >> > >>Herman (ISTD) wrote: > >> > >>>Dear all, > >>> > >>>I use gnokii to send Nagios notification. Gnokii need to access > >>>/dev/ttyUSB0 in order to deliver message to Handphone. At present, I > >>>need to set nagios user to root group in order to accomplish this > > > > task. > > > >>>If the nagios user is not in root group, it could not access > >>>/dev/ttyUSB0. > >>> > >>>Previously when nagios user is not in root group, I tried to do some > >>>workarounds such as : chown nagios /dev/ttyUSB0 but it didn't work. > > > > Is > > > >>>there's any way to access /dev/ttyUSB0 without setting nagios user > > > > as > > > >>>root group ? > >>>Thank you. > >>> > >> > >>Will "sudo" not accomplish this? > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > > 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=DEVDE V > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > -- > IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - > 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=DEVDE V > _______________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [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
