check_email_loop problem

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of David Gentry
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 11:43 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_email_loop problem
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> 
> 
> I am trying to use the check_email_loop for the first time, and
>  I am getting a "check_email_loop.stat:failed to open mail-ID
database"
>  in nagios. I can run the plugin fine, but it wont execute through
>  the nagios process.  The check_email_loop.stat
> 
> was created in the /libexec director as root, and I changed it to
>  chmod 777, but no go.
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas?

Remove the file and make sure that /libexec is writeable by the nagios
user. Only perform your testing (for any plugin) as the nagios user.
Alternately, change the full path to check_email_loop.stat in the script
(line 55) to point to somewhere that the nagios user _can_ write to.

--
Marc


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