Nagios plugin always returns 0 value

[C. Bensend]

> I made a plugin that counts mails in particular postfix queues and when
> invoke from shell at remote host (mail server) it returns me valid
> values on stdout:
>
> ./check_postfixq.sh -w 30000 -c 50000 -p
> OK - total mails in queues: 10606 | mail in queues=10606;30000;50000;0
>
> but when I invoke it from Nagios server it always returns 0 as if all
> queues are empty:
>
> ./check_nrpe -H mail.server.hostname -c check_postfixq
> OK - total mails in queues: 0 | mail in queues=0;30000;50000;0
>
> What's wrong with this plugin? If any configs are necessary or something
> I'll provide them. If anyone have any reasonable idea please share.

Two things:

1) Make sure your custom plugin is trapping errors correctly, because
   I bet that:

2) The user that Nagios is running the plugin as does not have the
   permissions to look at the mail queue.

If you're using NRPE or some other method to run the custom plugin
on the remote host, it should be running as a non-privileged user.
And typically, non-privileged users cannot see the mail queue...

Benny


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