check_by_ssh problems

[Jamie Baddeley]

Hi,

I running nagios on debian box.

I'm successfully doing check_by_ssh from the prompt i.e:

/usr/lib/netsaint/plugins/check_by_ssh -H foo.bar -P 22 -l noc -C 
'/usr/lib/netsaint/plugins/check_procs -a openam -c 7:'

It returns the correct result.

However whenever I run this from nagios, I'm getting an "Unknown" with status 
information only saying "Usage:"

I suspect it is because nagios runs check_by_ssh as nagios, and I'm doing my 
testing (at prompt) from root. 

The easy fix is to su to nagios and run ssh-keygen again and redistribute the 
keys.

The problem is the system won't let me su nagios. Not only this, but there is 
no home directory for nagios. If I can't su nagios, I can't ssh-keygen. So 
I'm stuck.

Has anyone else come across this? What is the solution?

Help.

Jamie


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