Monitoring Plugins RPM build help

[Andrew Tomchuk]

Try changing owner and group from naemon to pg in spec file.
Best regards.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Geldart, Paul <paul.geldart at platts.com>
wrote:

> Hi
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> I am trying to build the monitoring plugins rpm at version 2.0 using the
> supplied SPEC file, which works ok as root, but comes up with the below
> error when I try to run the rpmbuild not as root (gets quite far before
> failure as you can see).
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> libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c -o naemon -g naemon check_apt
> /home/pg/monplugins/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/platts-monitoring-plugins-2.0-PG1.el6.x86_64/local/apps/monitoring-plugins-2.0/libexec/check_apt
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> /usr/bin/install: cannot change ownership of
> `/home/pg/monplugins/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/platts-monitoring-plugins-2.0-PG1.el6.x86_64/local/apps/monitoring-plugins-2.0/libexec/check_apt':
> Operation not permitted
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> make[2]: *** [install-libexecPROGRAMS] Error 1
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> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/pg/monplugins/rpmbuild/BUILD/monitoring-plugins-2.0/plugins'
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> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
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> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/pg/monplugins/rpmbuild/BUILD/monitoring-plugins-2.0/plugins'
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> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
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> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.refu88 (%install)
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> Looking at the readme thought this was because of the two suid plugins
> dhcp & icmp which I thought about possible removing as do not believe we
> use those anyway but not so sure now having had a look around so need to
> fix that error first.
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> I also noticed that later version of the monitoring plugins do not come
> with a spec file so probably good to understand whats going on here anyway
> to help when I get to that point.
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> Basically I want to build the rpm as non root but am not an expert with
> rpmbuild so just need a steer on how to tackle it and get rid of the above
> errors and get the bundle compiling and building with rpm when run as any
> user.
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> Any help would be much appreciated.
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> Kind Regards
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> Paul
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