Daniel,
nagios is started in /etc/init.d/nagios with "su - nagios -c nagios", so the process inherits the environment varialbes of the root user, which executes the su command. ($HOME is /root)
so the ssh wants to open ~/.ssh/known_hosts which is /root/.ssh/known_hosts which is not readable by the nagios user.
If you look into /etc/init.d/nagios a lot of environment varialbes are set, it is no big deal to set in addition the $HOME variable.
Thorsten
nagios is started in /etc/init.d/nagios with "su - nagios -c nagios", so the process inherits the environment varialbes of the root user, which executes the su command. ($HOME is /root)
so the ssh wants to open ~/.ssh/known_hosts which is /root/.ssh/known_hosts which is not readable by the nagios user.
If you look into /etc/init.d/nagios a lot of environment varialbes are set, it is no big deal to set in addition the $HOME variable.
Thorsten
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Von: Daniel Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: 25.01.2007 02:54PM
Kopie: [email protected]
Thema: Re: [Nagios-users] $HOME is not set in init script
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was writing an event-handler which does ssh to the faulty box. It does not work at
> all, since $HOME was /root and not /var/log. ssh aborted since it could not read
> /root/.ssh/known_hosts.
>
> So please change the /etc/init.d/nagios which sets all environment variable.
Well, its not the init script, its /etc/passwd...
nagios:x:100:101:nagios:/var/log/nagios:/bin/sh
But why should the nagios user be able to read files within roots home
directory? Let the nagios user use its own .ssh/known_hosts file...
Danny
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