Permission denied using du command

[Marc Powell]

On Jul 17, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Edwin Zoeller wrote:

> I have nrpe running a Linux server, when I execute a command like  
> check_mem using nrpe and it works but, when I use the command  
> check_dirsize11.sh I get "Error: Permission denied /usr/bin/du". Can  
> anyone shed some light on this?

The user that NRPE is running as on the remote machine does not have  
permissions to run the command /usr/bin/du. This is very unusual and  
the most likely reason is that you have changed the permissions on / 
usr/bin/du from it's default of 755.

--
Marc


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