Sound notification on nagios server

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Marcio Merlone wrote:

> root at cedro:/etc/nagios# su - nagios -s /bin/bash
> nagios at cedro:~
> $ /usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/media/critical.wav
> Playing WAVE '/usr/share/nagios/htdocs/media/critical.wav' : Unsigned 8
> bit, Rate 11025 Hz, Mono
> nagios at cedro:~$
>
> It made a sound! But:
>
> root at cedro:/etc/nagios# su - nagios -c
> "/usr/bin/aplay /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/media/critical.wav"
> root at cedro:/etc/nagios#
>
> This makes nothing. Anyway, it is clear that the nagios user is able to
> access /dev/dsp, since it played the sound on the first attempt.

Frankly I would not be so sure. But why does it not report anything on the
type of file? Seems like you need to check that first. Perhaps brush up a
bit on unix filesystems and access rights. try to check that first (Hint:
ls -l /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/media/critical.wav)

Then check de dsp device and see if it is available and not claimed by
some other process.

Hugo.

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