Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: $HOME is not set in init script

[Arno Lehmann]

Hello,

On 1/26/2007 8:56 AM, TKocher at spirit21.de wrote:

I'm not absolutely sure, but is it your mail program that add an 
"Antwort:" to the Subject? It would be nice if that could be turned off 
- look at the subject line now and imagine how it will look after some 
longer mail exchange.

The usual and more-or-less standard prefix for a reply is Re:.

> Danny,
> 
> you have the same start section as it is on my system.
> If you look a little bit further in the file you find this section
> 
> prefix=/usr
> exec_prefix=/usr
> NagiosBin=/usr/bin/nagios
> NagiosCfgFile=/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
> NagiosStatusFile=/var/log/nagios/status.dat
> NagiosTempFile=/var/log/nagios/nagios.tmp
> NagiosRetentionFile=/var/log/nagios/retention.dat
> NagiosCommandFile=/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
> NagiosVarDir=/var/log/nagios
> NagiosRunFile=/var/run/nagios.pid
> NagiosLockDir=/var/lock/subsys
> NagiosLockFile=nagios
> NagiosCGIDir=/usr/lib/nagios/cgi
> NagiosUser=nagios
> NagiosGroup=nagios
> 
> # added by thorsten
> 
> HOME=/var/log/nagios

If that is necessary then your setup is, IMO, broken.

su uses the system-wide setting for the home directoy. At least it does 
so on all the systems I know.

That has been demonstarted in this thread.

Thus, there is no need for a work-around - you'd better check what is 
broken in your setup.

> 
> This solves the problem of the /home problem, so I before other people 
> are running in the same problem it is better to add it in the distritbution.


No, it's probably only you who has that problem. So it would be better 
to fix your problem and not create new ones...

By the way - and I don't know the start script you quote from - the HOME 
variable probably needs to be exported before it takes effect.

Arno

> I am using Nagios 2.5 rpm for RH ES 3, updated to 2.7 with an rpm build 
> by my own.
> 
> Thorsten
> 
> 
>     An: TKocher at spirit21.de
>     Von: Daniel Meyer <eagle at cyberdelia.de>
>     Datum: 26.01.2007 08:45AM
>     Kopie: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>     Thema: Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: $HOME is not set in init script
> 
>     On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, TKocher at spirit21.de wrote:
> 
>      > Daniel,
>      >
>      > nagios is started in /etc/init.d/nagios with "su - nagios -c
>     nagios", so the process
>      > inherits the environment varialbes of the root user, which
>     executes the su command.
>      > ($HOME is /root)
> 
>     Which distribution are you using? My init-script (based on the one from
>     Dag Wieers Nagios-RPM) starts nagios this way:
> 
>     case "$1" in
> 
>             start)
>                     echo "Starting network monitor: nagios"
>                     $NagiosBin -v $NagiosCfgFile > /dev/null 2>&1;
>                     if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
>                             su - $NagiosUser -c "/usr/bin/ndo2db -c
>     /etc/nagios/ndo2db.cfg"
>                             su - $NagiosUser -c "touch
>     $NagiosVarDir/nagios.log $NagiosRetentionFile"
>                             rm -f $NagiosCommandFile
>                             touch $NagiosRunFile
>                             chown $NagiosUser:$NagiosGroup $NagiosRunFile
>                             $NagiosBin -d $NagiosCfgFile
> 
> 
> 
>     Danny
>     -- 
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>        and I feel like whining.           =             eagle at cyberdelia.de
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> 
> 
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