Nagios 2.0 init.d/nagios and daemonizing...

[Andreas Ericsson]

Chris Stankaitis wrote:
>>
>> what are the perms on /var/run?
>> Does the user your nagios daemon is running as have permission to write
>> there?
>> Is there an existing nagios.pid file in there? (if so, delete it)
>>
> 
> The perms on var run are root:root 755, these are the same perms which 
> /var/run has on my nagios 1.2 server.
> 
> 
>>
>>>>> my current work around is that I am just running Nagios from
>>>>> command line: Which is working fine... 
>>
>>
>>
>> As the Nagios user?
>>
> 
> Nagios user does not have permission to run the Nagios binary,

That's why it fails. When nagios threads the dynamic linker keeps the 
binary file open. There's no additional security risk in allowing the 
pseudo-user to run its own binary. It does, after all, already have 
access to all of its own memory, including the second PTE.

  it's
> executed as root at which time Nagios drops it's privileges, from 
> command line I am running it as root...  when Nagios init script is run
> it *SHOULD* start Nagios, write the lock, chown things to nagios:nagios 
> where needed and drop it's privileges, it isn't doing so at this time...
> 
> Regardless even as root running the nagios -d flag is not working, and 
> that is nagios daemon specific.
> 
> 
> 
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