check_mysql not using ~nagios/.my.cnf on RHEL 4withNagios 2.10 (Dag repository RPM)

[Goltz, Jim (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C]]

> I'm running Nagios 2.10 quite successfully on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> 4.  However, I can't seem to get check_mysql to use the proper
> configuration files.

Problem resolved.  Apparently Nagios does not define the environment variable HOME for its plugins, so "~" does not get expanded to the home directory for user "nagios".

I changed the command definition for check_mysql:

was: 	$USER1$/check_mysql -H $HOSTADDRESS$
now: 	env HOME=/var/log/nagios $USER1$/check_mysql -H $HOSTADDRESS$

The plugin is able to connect successfully now.

--
Jim Goltz <jgoltz at mail.nih.gov>
Contractor, Lockheed Martin
National Library of Medicine

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