Strange NRPE issue

[Christoph Kluenter]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 17:52:58 Francis Dube wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Nagios nagios-2.12_1 with NRPE nrpe2-2.11_1 to check if my
> display is working properly. I'm taking a screenshot every 4 minutes and
> then i compare it with the last screenshot. My script is working very
> well when it's ran locally but when i'm calling it from the server the
> screenshot isn't taken. I tought it was a right problem on the Xorg
> server, but i tried with "xhost +" (which do "access control disabled,
> clients can connect from any host"). Both ways i run the script with the
> user 'nagios'. The rest of the commands in the scripts work fine, the
> only problem is with the screenshot which is taken using this command :
> import -display :0 -window root /afolder/myscreenshot.png
Have you tried setting the PATH ?
Or using /usr/bin/import instead of plain "import" ?

Cheers,
      Christoph
>
> I also tried to run the script over shh (ssh nagios at 1.2.3.4
> /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_news) and this method is working as fine
> as locally. So i think there's something wrong with the way NRPE execute
> my script.
>
> Anyone got an idea of the reason why the screenshot isn't working when i
> run the script with NRPE ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Francis
>
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