[Nagiosplug-help] check_nagios problem in FreeBSD

[Will Saxon]

Hello,

I wanted to search the archives for this, but the gmane interface is a little aggravating and sourceforge wasn't responding.

At least on my FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE machine, the check_nagios plugin does not work as compiled from the port. The default ps command seems to be "ps -weo 'stuff'" which does not return process information for any but the calling user. Since the user context should be nagios, it seems like this ought to work. I tried to run the check_nagios plugin as root and setuid nagios, but it wasn't working - the result was always something like 'cannot find nagios process!'. This was prompted by the CGI never being able to tell if the nagios process was alive or not.

I ended up changing the configure script and configure.in so that the ps command was ps -axweo instead of ps -weo. I was wondering if there is a better way to 'fix' this problem and if the additional output from the altered ps command will confuse nagios or make other things not work correctly. 

-Will