Permissions problem

[Patrick Morris]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Adam Mooz wrote:

> I'm using Nagios and NRPE to monitor some system logs on a remote  
> system via check_logfiles.
> 
> Here's the setup:
> -user 'nagio's is part of the 'adm' group
> -/var/log/syslog is readable by the 'adm' group
> -manually executing check_logfiles as nagios (sudo -u nagios ./ 
> check_logfiles <etc>) works
> -executing remotely via NRPE fails
> -NRPE is being started via xinetd and running as 'nagios'
> 
> changing syslog to be world readable fixes the problem, however it  
> does just that; leaves the syslog file world readable.  This behavior  
> is being repeated for several other log files as well (mysql, apache)  
> where despite nagios being part of the appropriate groups still not  
> remotely readable.  This is clearly a problem of something running as  
> a different user.
> 
> Ideas?

If I were a betting man I'd say that adm is not the nagios user's
primary group, and/or you've specified a different group in your xinetd
config.

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