[Nagiosplug-help] using check_nrpe and check_mailq

[Mitchell K. Smith]

Greetings.

I am attempting to check the mail queue on a remote server.

check_mailq (nagios-plugins 1.3.0) 1.1
NRPE Plugin for Nagios Version: 1.8

If I run check_mailq on the remote host as user nagios I get the following error:
$ ./check_mailq -w 1 -c 2
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at ./check_mailq line 104.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./check_mailq line 110.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./check_mailq line 110.
 | mailq = 

If I run as root, it works.
# ./check_mailq -w 1 -c 2
OK: mailq is empty | mailq = 0

I would rather not have to run the plugins as root on the remote host. Tried giving the mail group r,x permissions and making nagios a member of the mail group. That didn't help.

Can someone recommend the best way to deal with this?
Thanks for your help.


Mitchell K. Smith