NIS and DHCP

[Dan Rich]

Matthias Eichler said:
> Some comment and question to check_dhcp. The DHCP plugin just
> runs under root, otherwise it brings some error that it can't
> bind to the network interface.
>
> But Nagios is usually not running as root...did you wrote some
> wrapper with su -c "./check_dhcp" or do you have some other
> solution?!?

The simplest (although probably not the most secure) is to just setuid the
check_dhcp program to root.
    chown root check_dhcp
    chmod u+s check_dhcp
It's really not that much of a risk, since you have to run it as root anyway.

The best option would be to use one of the root wrappers floating around the net.

> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 17:54, Dan Rich wrote:
>> Lionel Verscheure said:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I just want to know if it exist already a plugin to test "NIS" and "DHCP"
>> ?
>>
>> You can find check_dhcp in the contrib directory of the plugins source.  As
>> far as I know there is no specific plugin for nis, but you can check it with
>> the check_rpc plugin easily enough:
>>
>> define command{
>>         command_name    check_nis
>>         command_line    $USER1$/check_rpc ypserv -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c 2
>> }
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