nagios can't run nagios_check?

Jack Coates jack at monkeynoodle.org
Thu Nov 21 06:32:58 CET 2002


New install, Mandrake 9.0, working with contrib RPMs recompiled from
src.rpm.

[jack at missouri jack]$ ls -l /var/log/nagios
total 24
drwxr-xr-x    2 nagios   nagios       4096 Nov 20 20:37 archives/
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 20 20:39 comment.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios          0 Nov 20 20:39 downtime.log
-rw-r--r--    1 nagios   nagios       3694 Nov 20 20:39 nagios.log
-rw-rw-r--    1 nagios   nagios       4253 Nov 20 21:30 status.log
-rw-------    1 nagios   nagios       3102 Nov 20 20:39 status.sav
drwx------    2 nagios   nagios       4096 Nov 19 21:17 tmp/
[jack at missouri jack]$ sudo /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios
/var/log/nagios/status.log 5 '/usr/sbin/nagios'
Nagios ok: located 1 process, status log updated 5 seconds ago
[jack at missouri jack]$ sudo -u nagios
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios -F /var/log/nagios/status.log -e 5
-C '/usr/sbin/nagios'
Could not locate a running Nagios process!
[jack at missouri jack]$ sudo -u nagios bash
[nagios at missouri jack]$ tail -2 /var/log/nagios/status.log
[1037856707]
SERVICE;phttpacp1;http_acp_1;OK;1/3;HARD;1037856514;1037857114;ACTIVE;1;1;1;1037827698;0;OK;25074;0;0;0;0;0;1;0;0;1;0;0.00;0;1;1;1;HTTP ok: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 0 second response time
[1037856707]
SERVICE;phttpacp2;http_acp_2;OK;1/3;HARD;1037856557;1037857157;ACTIVE;1;1;1;1037827728;0;OK;25044;0;0;0;0;0;1;0;0;1;0;0.00;0;1;1;1;HTTP ok: HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 0 second response time
[nagios at missouri jack]$ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios -F
/var/log/nagios/status.log -e 5 -C '/usr/sbin/nagios'
Could not locate a running Nagios process!

I'm kind of confused why my user account can do this, but the owner of
the logfile can't...
-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...



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