[Nagiosplug-help] Clarification- using check_nrpe and check_mailq

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Is nrpe runniing as the nagios user?

did you hup xinetd after modifying the groups info?

-sg

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

> Thanks. I think I was already that far.
> 
> The directory on the remote host already has permissions set like this:
> drwxr-x---    2 root     mail         4096 Mar 27 12:23 mqueue
> 
> I am running nrpe as the nagios user.
> xinetd.d]# cat nrpe 
> # default: on
>         # description: NRPE
> service nrpe
> {
>         flags = REUSE
>         log_on_failure += USERID
>         socket_type = stream
>         user = nagios
>         server = /usr/local/nagios/libexec/nrpe
>         server_args = -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --inetd
>         wait = no
>         only_from = 172.31.11.1 172.31.6.29
> }
> 
> The nagios user is already a member of mail:
> from /etc/group
> mail:x:12:mail,postfix,nagios
> 
> Still gets the same error.
> 
> Mitch
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:59 PM
> To: Mitchell K. Smith
> Cc: nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-help] Clarification- using check_nrpe and
> check_mailq
> 
> 
> 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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