nrpe and sudo

[Sean McAfee]

Terry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to run sudo /usr/sbin/clustat -s $service -l from nrpe.
> I can run it on the nrpe machine as the nagios user and it works fine.
>  However, when I call it from my nagios machine via check_nrpe it is
> not working.   Since sudo works locally, it is something with nrpe in
> how it is calling the sudo command that is making sudo not match.  my
> sudoers is pretty open as it sits right now for testing:
> nagios  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
>
> I even broke it down to a very simple script:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use lib "/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins";
> use utils qw(%ERRORS);
> $command = "sudo /bin/echo shit";
> $foo = `$command`;
> print "$foo\n";
> exit $ERRORS{'OK'};
>
> I get this from the other side:
> CHECK_NRPE: No output returned from daemon.
>
> I see that you can prefix all commands with sudo in the nrpe.cfg but I
> only need it for a few plugins so would rather just call it from the
> script.
Try specifying the full path to sudo.

Sean McAfee
System Engineer

Collaborative Fusion, Inc.
 smcafee at collaborativefusion.com
 412-422-3463 x 4025

5849 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15217

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