[Nagiosplug-help] Clarification- using check_nrpe and check_mailq

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Looks like the directory perms for mqueue got changed between rh7.3 and 
rh8

change the group perms on mqueue to rx (group == mail)
add nrpe user to group mail

run ./check_mailq as nrpe user to verify.

Also the plugin needs better error checking - I'll post a bug report
[710973] on that.

-sg


On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Mitchell K. Smith wrote:

> I should have been more clear on two points.
> 
> OS is RH Linux 7.3 on the Nagios server and 8.0 on the remote host.
> 
> By changing group permissions on the /var/spool/mqueue directory to r x, I am able to get check_mailq to run as the Nagios user. The problem occurrs when trying to use nrpe from the Nagios server.
> 
> # ./check_nrpe -H 172.31.11.10 -c check_mail_queue
> uires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.
> Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mailq line 104.
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mailq line 110.
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mailq line 110.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitchell K. Smith 
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:33 PM
> To: nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] using check_nrpe and check_mailq
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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