Temptrax plugin for Netsaint

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Ashwin Kotian wrote:

> I've just purchased the Sensatronics Digital temperature monitoring device & am able to run the following successfully from the command line:
>
> /usr/lib/netsaint/plugins/check_temptraxf -d /dev/ttyS0 -p 1 -w 68 -c 75
>
> However in Netsaint version 0.0.7b8-2, if I add the same command in the service definition as follows:
>
> service[host]=Lab Temperature;0;24x7;3;5;1;linux-admins;120;24x7;1;1;1;;"/usr/lib/netsaint/plugins/check_temptraxf -d /dev/ttyS0 -w 68 -c 75"
>
> It fails with Netsaint logs reporting: Error: Unable to open /dev/ttyS0 for reading/writing!!
>
> What is the problem here ??? Please help...
>

Looks like permission problem.
As which user do you run the manual test, and as which user does
netsaint run?

You could set the plugin setuid root (ok, somewhat bad idea
securitywise) or give some additional permissions to the device.

HTH
Olaf

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