Non obvious 127 plugin error

[Giorgio Zarrelli]

Check wether your shell is a Dash or a Bash. That means, check where the /bin/sh symlink is pointing to.

Ciao,

Giorgio

Il giorno 02/giu/2011, alle ore 14:43, Craig Stewart <Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com> ha scritto:

> All,
> 
> SELinux was enabled (DOH!) and has been now disabled.  Didn't fix my
> problem though.  Thanks for that Clint, I don't know HOW many times
> SELinux has bitten me.  Should know by now.
> 
> I ran the strace as suggested by Justin and saw THIS little tidbit flash by:
> 
> 11769 execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dig
> -H 142.166.86.18 -l www.xplornet.com -a 142.166.86.46 -w 0.5 -c 1 -t
> 5"], [/* 189 vars */]) = -1 E2BIG (Argument list too long)
> 11751 --- {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=11769,
> si_status=127, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} (Child exited) --
> 
> Argument list too long????  So, SOMETHING (I suspect the shell) doesn't
> like that many arguments passed.  Well, making progress.
> 
> By the way, this is a bone stock OS install (Fedora 15 currently) and I
> haven't tweaked anything.
> 
> Cheers all!
> 
> Craig
> --
> Craig Stewart
> Systems Integration Analyst
> Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com
> Xplornet - Broadband, Everywhere
> 
> On 06/01/2011 05:36 PM, Clint Dilks wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Just wondering if SE Linux is disabled on your system?  If not check
>> your audit log and see if access to the plugin is being denied
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Justin T Pryzby <justinp at norchemlab.com
>> <mailto:justinp at norchemlab.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    You can also strace the main nagios process:
>>    strace -fs999 -e execve -p PID_OF_NAGIOS
>>    or
>>    sudo strace -fs999 -e execve -p `ps o pid h -C nagios3 --sort
>>    start_time |sed q` 2>&1 |grep -Fw execve |grep -Fw check_dig
>> 
>>    127 is the return status of the shell when a command isn't found:
>>    justinp at justinp:~$ asdf; echo $?
>>    bash: asdf: command not found
>>    127
>> 
>>    man sh => /EXIT STATUS/
>> 
>>    Justin
>> 
>>    On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 04:23:05PM -0300, Craig Stewart wrote:
>>> Giorgio
>>> 
>>> As apache user:
>>> 
>>> bash-4.2$ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dig -H 72.45.111.250
>>    <tel:72.45.111.250> -l
>>> www.xplornet.com <http://www.xplornet.com> -a 142.166.86.46 -w 0.5
>>    -c 1 -t 5
>>> DNS OK - 0.096 seconds response time (www.xplornet.com
>>    <http://www.xplornet.com>. 864 IN A
>>> 142.166.86.46)|time=0.095553s;0.500000;1.000000;0.000000
>>> 
>>> 
>>> You understand my confusion.
>>> 
>>> Craig
>>> 
>>> Craig Stewart
>>> Systems Integration Analyst
>>> Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com
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>>> 
>>> On 06/01/2011 04:18 PM, Giorgio Zarrelli wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm curious. Please, do a su - as the apache user and execute
>>    the check
>>>> as that user.
>>>> 
>>>> Ciao,
>>>> 
>>>> Giorgio
>>> 
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