Running nagios as root

[Marc Powell]

That's actually a really bad idea. The simpler and better solution is to
make ping and fping executable by the nagios user --

[root at betelgeuse bes]# ls -al /bin/ping 
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        35192 Apr 18  2002 /bin/ping
[root at betelgeuse bes]# ls -l /usr/local/sbin/fping
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        83254 Nov 15  2002
/usr/local/sbin/fping

chmod 4755 /bin/ping /usr/local/sbin/fping

--
Marc

________________________________________
From: R. F. [mailto:visigoth at home.nl] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:56 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net

Hi, I've been messing with Nagios for a week now and I can't get it to
access/execute /bin/ping or /usr/local/sbin/fping. So I was wondering,
is it wise to run Nagios as root? Is there a way to do it safely? If so,
how, because it looks like the only option for me :(

Thanks.


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