[patch] nsca chroot() support
Marc Haber
mh+nagios-devel at zugschlus.de
Sun Mar 12 12:24:07 CET 2006
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 06:05:03AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> i couldn't decide whether it made sense to try and chroot in
> inetd mode. my inclination is that the corresponding inetd
> daemon (xinetd, etc) should provide this functionality, and
> that it would probably be impossible to do if inetd was
> running the service as another user anyway.
If the inet daemon chroots before invoking nsca, all libraries and
config files would need to be present in the chroot. I don't think
this would be desireable.
Greetings
Marc
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