$HOME is not set in init script

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of TKocher at spirit21.de
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:43 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] $HOME is not set in init script
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was writing an event-handler which does ssh to the faulty box. It
does
> not work at all, since $HOME was /root and not /var/log. ssh aborted
since
> it could not read /root/.ssh/known_hosts.

FWIW, I don't see this with my event handlers. All run as nagios and use
~nagios/.ssh/known_hosts when called in my event handler like --

ssh $4 'sudo /etc/init.d/winbind restart ' >>$LOGFILE 2>&1

--
Marc

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