Nagios Plugins using Net::SSH::Perl

[Morris, Patrick]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Scott Baker
> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:53 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios Plugins using Net::SSH::Perl
> 
> I wrote a script that uses Net::SSH::Perl to login to our 
> router and check some stats. When I run it as root the script 
> works perfectly, if I run it as the nagios user it runs fine. 
> When nagios runs it I get an error that /root/.ssh isn't 
> writable which as the nagios user it's not. For some reason 
> running Net::SSH:Perl scripts under the nagios user 
> environment confuses the script into thinking it's running as root.
> 
> Anyone else have this problem? Is there a known work around?

Sounds like the environment is not being set correctly in your script.
This is a wild guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if the HOME variable
is being carried over from the user who started Nagios (which is most
likely root).

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