SOLVED!: Re: nrpe sudo issues on a remote box

[Andy Riedel]

One more modification to the sudo line will make it more compatible with
various other init scripts:

sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart >/dev/null 2>&1

Andy

"Andy Riedel" <ariedel at atlas-mobile.com> wrote in message
news:bqtn8p$vkt$1 at sea.gmane.org...
> Add this pipe to /dev/null in your eventhandler script and everything
works
> properly. nrpe will indeed stop processing a script after the first line
of
> response text is received from the script. By piping to /dev/null, the
> entire script will complete.
>
> sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart >/dev/null
>
> Andy
>
> "Robert Bilbrey" <rbilbrey at cymark.com> wrote in message
> news:20031203065741.29196.qmail at mail.cyberdown.com...
> > I modified the example http-restart script to use sudo to restart
> coldfusion
> > and apache after they have been down hard twice. The event triggers on
the
> > nagios box and the nrpe daemon executes the script. It kills apache and
> > coldfusion, but fails to restart apache (w/o a corrosponding error),
> > coldfusion restarts. The really flaky thing is that if I su to nrpe and
> run
> > the script, it runs as it should, both services stop and restart.
> >
> > The only differnece in the secure log between both methods of invocation
> is
> > that when the daemon does it, there is no tty entry.
> >
> > relevant sudoer config:
> > Cmnd_Alias      R  = /etc/init.d/httpd start,/etc/init.d/httpd
> > stop,/etc/init.d/httpd restart,/usr/sbin/httpd,/etc/init.d/coldfusion
> > stop,/etc/init.d/coldfusion
> start,/usr/lib/nagios/eventhandlers/http-restart
> >
> > nrpe ALL=  NOPASSWD: R
> >
> >
> > secure log entries: (DAEMON Initiated)
> > Dec  2 21:08:28 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/httpd stop
> > Dec  2 21:08:28 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/coldfusion stop
> > Dec  2 21:08:29 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/coldfusion start
> > Dec  2 21:08:29 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/httpd start
> > Dec  3 00:32:38 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/httpd stop
> > Dec  3 00:32:40 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/coldfusion stop
> > Dec  3 00:32:46 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/coldfusion start
> > Dec  3 00:32:46 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/httpd start
> > Dec  3 00:33:29 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/httpd stop
> > Dec  3 00:33:29 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/coldfusion stop
> > Dec  3 00:33:30 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/coldfusion start
> > Dec  3 00:33:30 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/httpd start
> >
> > secure log entries: (Initiated from console as nrpe)
> >
> >
> > Dec  3 01:52:51 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/var/log ;
USER=root
> ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/httpd stop
> > Dec  3 01:52:53 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/var/log ;
USER=root
> ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/coldfusion stop
> > Dec  3 01:52:54 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/var/log ;
USER=root
> ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/coldfusion start
> > Dec  3 01:52:54 cb01 sudo:     nrpe : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/var/log ;
USER=root
> ;
> > COMMAND=/etc/init.d/httpd start
> >
> >
> > So can anyone enlighten me to what I have missed ?
> > Thanks, Bob
> >
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