Nagios specific scripts and/or binaries

[Arno Lehmann]

Hello,

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On 3/24/2006 7:30 PM, George Rushby wrote:
> HI Arno,
> 
> Thanks for your prompt response! 
> 
> I have been doing all test work running as the nagios user. If I take the
> following command "/usr/bin/printf "***** Nagios  *****\n\nNotification
> Type: PROBLEM\n\nService: Current Users\nHost: test-server\nIP:
> 10.0.0.200\nState: WARNING\nDate/Time: Fri Mar 24 18:44:56 SAST
> 2006\n\nAdditional Info:\n\nUSERS WARNING - 1 users currently logged in" |
> /opt/tools/pipesend/pipesend" it works like a dream.
> 
> I have even created a symbolic link for pipesend in /usr/local/bin.....but
> alas it fails!

PATH setting for Nagios, perhaps? And I don't mean the one you get as 
user nagios, I mean the one Nagios works with...

Apart from that, for that sort of problem, it's a simple thing to write 
a small wrapper script which logs some diagnostic output - for example, 
path, id, shell and probably the Nagios-specific environment variables - 
and then submits the actual program calls with parameters. You might 
even log things like the output from 'which <programname>' and '/bin/ls 
-l <programname>' to see what actually happens...

Arno

> Anymore help would be appreciated.
> 
> George
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann
> Sent: 24 March 2006 08:21 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios specific scripts and/or binaries
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/24/2006 7:11 PM, George Rushby wrote:
> ...
> 
>>I get the following error in the nagios.log file
>>
>> 
>>
>>[1143218696] SERVICE NOTIFICATION: george;test-server;Current 
>>Users;WARNING;notify-by-sms;USERS WARNING - 1 users currently logged in
>>
>>[1143218696] Warning: Attempting to execute the command "/usr/bin/printf 
>>"***** Nagios  *****\n\nNotification Type: PROBLEM\n\nService: Current 
>>Users\nHost: test-server\nIP: 10.0.0.200\nState: WARNING\nDate/Time: Fri 
>>Mar 24 18:44:56 SAST 2006\n\nAdditional Info:\n\nUSERS WARNING - 1 users 
>>currently logged in" | pipesend" resulted in a return code of 127.  Make 
>>sure the script or binary you are trying to execute actually exists...
>>
> 
> ...
> 
>>If I remove the ‘pipesend’ and replace it with ‘mail’ and execute it via 
>>Nagios it works.
>>
>> 
>>
>>So the question is, does Nagios only work with special scripts and/or 
>>binaries?
>>
> 
> 
> PATH or permissions.
> 
> I'm quite sure that your script either can not be found in Nagios' 
> search path, or that Nagios can't run it due to missing permissions.
> 
> You should keep in mind that all test work should be done as the user 
> Nagios runs as.
> 
> Arno
> 
> 
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>George
>>
>>
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> 
> 

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