Nagios and Festival

[TheCajun]

> TheCajun wrote:
> > I have recently upgraded to Fedora10.  It seems every release they
> > decide to break something.  Fedora9 was Video.
> > 
> > I have Nagios working using my old configuration from Fedora9.  But when
> > a monitored service has a problem, I get no audio.  Log shows this..
> > 
> > Dec 16 01:21:36 localhost nagios: HOST EVENT HANDLER: domino;(null);(null);(null);host-notify
> > Dec 16 01:23:58 localhost nagios: SERVICE ALERT: zaphod;CheckLoad;OK;HARD;1;OK - load average: 0.03, 0.24, 1.65
> > Dec 16 01:23:58 localhost nagios: SERVICE NOTIFICATION: durwin;zaphod;CheckLoad;OK;service-festival;OK - load average: 0.03, 0.24, 1.65
> > Dec 16 01:23:58 localhost pulseaudio[28852]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied
> > Dec 16 01:23:58 localhost pulseaudio[28852]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1274_1371_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed.
> > Dec 16 01:23:58 localhost pulseaudio[28852]: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Permission denied
> > Dec 16 01:23:58 localhost pulseaudio[28852]: module.c: Failed to load  module "module-alsa-source" (argument: "device_id=0 source_name=alsa_input.pci_1274_1371_sound_card_0_alsa_capture_0 tsched=1"): initialization failed.
> > 
> > 
> > If I su to nagios user and use festival directly, I get this..
> > 
> > I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
> > I: caps.c: Dropping root privileges.
> > I: caps.c: Limited capabilities successfully to CAP_SYS_NICE.
> > 
> > 
> > Festival does work as root, and I can play music using xmms logged on as
> > my normal user.
> > 
> > During my searches, it was suggested to add nagios to certain pulseaudio
> > groups which I did.  This did nothing.
> > 
> > Any one have any ideas?
> > 
> > Thank you for any help.
> > 
> > Durwin
> > 
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> 
> 
> Try seeing what the group perms are for /dev/audiodevice and update your nagios user/group
> accordingly. maybe they changed perms on you...lowlife bastards ;(
> 
Both /dev/dsp and /dev/audio are 660 and user and group are both root. 
Isn't that as it should be?  Isn't Pulseaudio suppose to interface with
the hardware and not the individual processes?

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TheCajun <thecajun at nmia.com>


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