check_by_ssh problems

Jamie Baddeley jamie.baddeley at vpc.co.nz
Mon Apr 21 12:29:27 CEST 2003


Forget this. I managed to do the su nagios stuff. It actually turned out to 
be a service alias problem. 

cheers

jamie

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:04, Jamie Baddeley wrote:
> 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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