check_procs returning wrong data

C. Bensend benny at bennyvision.com
Tue Jun 19 14:32:55 CEST 2012


> I finally got it working but it was not that easy. As I am using CentOS 5,
> by default the requiretty value in the /etc/sudoers file is activated, so
> I
> had to edit it like this:
> #Defaults    requiretty
> nagios ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs
>
> And the command in the .cfg file would be like this:
> command[check_total_procs]=sudo /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs -w
> 150 -c 200

It's a bit safer to use this right before the user and command
definition:

Defaults:nagios !requiretty

That way, you're leaving the restriction in place for *other* users,
you're just overriding it for the nagios user.

Benny


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