On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Adam Mooz wrote: > I'm using Nagios and NRPE to monitor some system logs on a remote > system via check_logfiles. > > Here's the setup: > -user 'nagio's is part of the 'adm' group > -/var/log/syslog is readable by the 'adm' group > -manually executing check_logfiles as nagios (sudo -u nagios ./ > check_logfiles <etc>) works > -executing remotely via NRPE fails > -NRPE is being started via xinetd and running as 'nagios' > > changing syslog to be world readable fixes the problem, however it > does just that; leaves the syslog file world readable. This behavior > is being repeated for several other log files as well (mysql, apache) > where despite nagios being part of the appropriate groups still not > remotely readable. This is clearly a problem of something running as > a different user. > > Ideas?
If I were a betting man I'd say that adm is not the nagios user's primary group, and/or you've specified a different group in your xinetd config. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ 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
