Mordur Ingolfsson wrote: > Hi List, > > I have been having difficulty with running a Nagios plugin called > check_debian_packages by way of nrpe with sudo. > > The plugin I'm having difficulties with needs to run "apt-get -s > upgrade" on a Debian system, so root privileges are needed. I can run > the plugin fine with sudo as user nagios, but nrpe using sudo always > fails with permission denied, even if I give the nagios user full > permissions for everything in /etc/sudoers. > > I would be grateful for any hints Use check_apt instead it doesn't need root privs.
Best to avoid using root privs if you don't need to. -h -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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
