qpage doesn't work through nagios, help!!

[Ryan Henry]

make sure the nagios user has permissions to write to the modem device - 
/dev/cua/b or whatever it is.

-Ryan

Mike Cochran wrote:

>I'm having a similar problem, but I'm using yaps (yet another pager
>software) instead of qpage.  When I run it (from the command line) using
>under root, it all works fine.  Then when I try it using user nagios it
>doesn't work...  it gives me the following output: 
>
><<
>  
>
>>/usr/local/bin/yaps -vvvvv -t mike 'test'
>>    
>>
>Found service D1 for 616xxxxxxx
>Sending following message:
>mike         (D1, 616xxxxxxx): test -nagios
>Trying to open /dev/cua/b for modem standard
>Unable to dial D1
>  
>
>
>Has anybody had a similar problem or know what it might be?  I would
>assume that it would be a permissions problem, but I'm not sure which
>permissions to check.  The yaps permissions seem fine, since the program
>starts up fine.  Thanks for any help...
>
>-mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
>[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Evan Mann
>Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:02 PM
>To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
>Subject: [Nagios-users] qpage doesn't work through nagios, help!!
>
>I can't figure out why qpage doesn't actually SEND the page when it's
>run
>through nagios.  This is what /var/log/syslog says:
>
>Jan 21 11:57:10 linux qpage[25317]: connection from
>[anonymous]@localhost
>Jan 21 11:57:10 linux qpage[25317]: disconnect from
>[anonymous]@localhost
>Jan 21 11:57:10 linux qpage[21486]: processing the page queue
>
>This is what happens when I run qpage manually as root:
>
>Jan 21 11:58:10 linux qpage[25433]: connection from
>[anonymous]@localhost
>Jan 21 11:58:10 linux qpage[25433]: page submitted, id=AUQ60070,
>from=root
>Jan 21 11:58:10 linux qpage[21486]: processing the page queue
>Jan 21 11:58:10 linux qpage[25433]: disconnect from
>[anonymous]@localhost
>
>/usr/local/bin/qpage was set user/group as root/root so I changed it to
>root/nagios but still no luck.
>
>
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