check_mailq changes for exim?

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     >> Before I exercise my feeble Perl skills, does anyone have mods for
>     >> the check_mailq plugin which will check exim's mail queue?
> 
>     Cal> I actually wrote one, in bash, got completely finished with it and
>     Cal> began testing before I remembered that you have to be an root to
>     Cal> execute exim -bp? I'm not really keen on making nagios an admin for
>     Cal> my mail server so I'm currently in 'thinking' mode on this one.
> 
>     Cal> I'm open to suggestions though.
> 
> I did a little reading of the exim spec.txt file today and saw that there's
> an option (queue_list_requires_admin) which, when set false, allows mere
> mortals to list the mail queue.  I'm not an exim user, just trying to
> monitor a system that runs it, so take this suggestion with a grain of
> salt.  I doubt there'd be a huge security hole opened up as a result, but
> the restriction is probably there for a reason.
> 

A similar restriction exists for other MTA - root only.

The recommended work-around has been to enable adequate group permissions 
between the MTA user and Nagios user.

A working patch for exim would be welcome.

-- 
-sg



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