<div>Daniel, nagios is started in /etc/init.d/nagios with "su - nagios -c nagios", so the process inherits the environment varialbes of the root user, which executes the su command. ($HOME is /root) so the ssh wants to open ~/.ssh/known_hosts which is /root/.ssh/known_hosts which is not readable by the nagios user. If you look into /etc/init.d/nagios a lot of environment varialbes are set, it is no big deal to set in addition the $HOME variable. Thorsten <div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #000000; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;">An: TKocher@spirit21.de Von: Daniel Meyer <eagle@cyberdelia.de> Datum: 25.01.2007 02:54PM Kopie: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Thema: Re: [Nagios-users] $HOME is not set in init script On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, TKocher@spirit21.de wrote: > I was writing an event-handler which does ssh to the faulty box. It does not work at > all, since $HOME was /root and not /var/log. ssh aborted since it could not read > /root/.ssh/known_hosts. > > So please change the /etc/init.d/nagios which sets all environment variable. Well, its not the init script, its /etc/passwd... nagios:x:100:101:nagios:/var/log/nagios:/bin/sh But why should the nagios user be able to read files within roots home directory? Let the nagios user use its own .ssh/known_hosts file... Danny -- Q: Gentoo is too hard to install = <a href="http://www.cyberdelia.de">http://www.cyberdelia.de</a> and I feel like whining. = eagle@cyberdelia.de A: Please see /dev/null. = (from the gentoo installer FAQ) = \o/ </blockquote> </div></div>