On 2010-07-05 19:34, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> First off, does anyone use the puppet built in nagios types?
>
> I just started to play with them, and I noticed that nagios_host
> writes the nagios_host.cfg file as owned by root, and readable by
> root, and no on else. Is there a reason for that? Since nagios runs as
> the nagios user, it can't read the file. Sure, I can change the
> ownership later with a file {}, but I shouldn't need to.
>
> -rw------- 1 root root 294 Jul 5 16:30 nagios_host.cfg
>
> James, hope my tone is acceptable.
>
> Doug
>
This is probably the case since the puppet daemon must run as root to be
able to install packages and create/remove/modify files. Also, the
default umask for root is normally set to create files that are not
accessible to everyone.
As you mentioned, "file {...}" is probably the way to go:
file { nagios_resource_cfg:
path => "$nagios_basedir/resource.cfg",
source => [ ... ],
notify => Service['nagios'],
owner => root, group => nagios, mode => '0640';
}
Another possibility would be to use (I havent tested it yet)
File { owner => root, group => nagios, mode => '0640'; }
inside the class in which you declare the nagio file resources so that
those permissions are the default for the nagios config files.
--
Gabriel Filion
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