FW: SMS issue Nagios 3.0

[Christian Schneemann]

On Tuesday April 22 2008 08:13:29 am Henrik Schou wrote:
> When I try as the nagios user I get the following error:
>
> sendsms xxxxxxxxxx test
> mktemp: cannot create temp file /var/spool/sms/outgoing/send_L23225:
> Permission denied
> /usr/local/bin/sendsms: line 25: $FILE: ambiguous redirect
> /usr/local/bin/sendsms: line 26: $FILE: ambiguous redirect
> /usr/local/bin/sendsms: line 27: $FILE: ambiguous redirect
> [nagios at nagios bin]$
>
> Which user is the right owner for sendsms?
Have a short look at /var/spool/sms, which user owns the directories? Simply 
add the nagios user to the group which owns these directories. (Don't know 
which Distribution you're using, so it could be differ from distribution to 
distribution)


Christian


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> /Henrik
>
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> van der Kooij
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> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS issue Nagios 3.0
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> Henrik Schou wrote:
> | I have installed Nagios 3.0 and I have some issues with Nagios sending
> | sms-messages. I have installed smstools, and sendsms works fine from
>
> the
>
> | command line. But when I want Nagios to send a notification, it fails.
> | Could this be because of wrong user rights? I have changed the owner
>
> of
>
> | sendsms to Nagios, but that didn't help.
>
> Have you tested it by becoming the nagios user and using the exact
> commandline from your definition?
>
> Tests run as root or another user are not relevant. You need to know
> what happens as the nagios user.
>
> So `su - nagios` and test again.
>
> Hugo.



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