Probably I am missing something obvious.....

[John Stevens]

Hmmmm.  Seems I was premature.  The change I made only affects when I
run the commands from the console su'ed as nagios.  The daemon still
cannot run them correctly.
I would appreciate any further ideas.
Thanks and Regards

On 6/2/05, John Stevens <jstevensog at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Larry and All,
> I discovered my Obvious something.  My CentOS 4 has selinux enabled
> and targeted.  I simply added the file
> /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/users/nagios with the following
> content, and all works now.  The content is:
> system_r:unconfined_t   system_r:unconfined_t
> 
> Not being an expert on selinux, I am not precisely sure of what this
> means, but it is the same as root.  Prior to this change, nagios user
> could not ping to the eth0 of my box.  Now it can.  With that out of
> the way, I can get on with monitoring the rest of the network ;-)
> Regards
> 
> On 6/2/05, Larry Naves <lnaves at asc.edu> wrote:
> > Don't use check_ping it is too slow. Use check_icmp and don't forget to do
> > the following:
> >
> > su - root
> > chown root:root check_icmp
> > chmod 4755 check_icmp
> > su - nagios
> > ./check_icmp -H localhost
> >
> >
> > Larry Wayne Naves, Jr. "Jay"
> > Systems Analyst
> > Computer Sciences Corporation /
> > Alabama Supercomputer Authority
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> > [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of John Stevens
> > Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:43 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Probably I am missing something obvious.....
> >
> > Hi All,
> > I have just installed nagios on a CentOS 4 box and I have a problem with
> > check_ping and check_http plugins.  When run as the nagios user they time
> > out.  If I run them sudo -u nagios as root, they work.
> >
> > What is the obvious thing I am missing here?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
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