nagios can't run nagios_check?

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Not positive - but if CGI is running under apache as "nobody" it is 
probably even more restricted than a normal user...

-sg


On 21 Nov 2002, Jack Coates wrote:

> msec at level 4 sets up /proc so that nagios can't read it. I've fixed
> that and nagios can now run the script from the command line
> successfully, however the CGI still doesn't see it. any ideas?
> 
> thanks,
> Jack
> 
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 21:32, Jack Coates wrote:
> > 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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