use visudo command, comment the following line:
Defaultsrequiretty
and try again.
2009/4/2 Andrew Davis ncc...@gmail.com:
Its running under xinetd, so 'ps aux|grep nrpe' isn't showing the true user.
However, the nrpe.cfg is set to use the nobody user. I've added the nobody
user to sudo,
Can you add a line to your /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe to run as a different
user. Something like like:
user = nagios-nrpe
Next create that user in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group
The user doesn't need a passwd set or a login shell.
Next add the user to the groups needed to see the
I've checked /etc/sudoers, /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg, /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe, and
the script itself (/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_logs.pl) and none
have any tty strings in them for me to comment out.
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I did that as a test and removed the entry later. I haven't created a
nagios user for any of the NRPE clients. I'll try doing that...
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John Stile
: [Nagios-users] Help please -
test works fine EXCEPT over NRPE
I setup the check_logs.pl
(http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1752.html;d=1)
test and its config file on some local Linux servers tested via NRPE.
All other NRPE tests work fine (including some custom ones). The
check_logs.pl works fine locally, but fails over NRPE.
On the client, if you look at 'ps aux |grep nrpe'
what user does nrpe run as?
You might have to configure sudo to allow that user to run the plugin.
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 18:27 -0400, Andrew Davis wrote:
I setup the
check_logs.pl
Its running under xinetd, so 'ps aux|grep nrpe' isn't showing the true
user. However, the nrpe.cfg is set to use the nobody user. I've added
the nobody user to sudo, and even tried it as the nagios user. What I
see now from the server is:
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H atum -c
