Permissions problem

[Adam Mooz]

Hello List,

I'm using Nagios and NRPE to monitor some system logs on a remote  
system via check_logfiles.

Here's the setup:
-user 'nagio's is part of the 'adm' group
-/var/log/syslog is readable by the 'adm' group
-manually executing check_logfiles as nagios (sudo -u nagios ./ 
check_logfiles <etc>) works
-executing remotely via NRPE fails
-NRPE is being started via xinetd and running as 'nagios'

changing syslog to be world readable fixes the problem, however it  
does just that; leaves the syslog file world readable.  This behavior  
is being repeated for several other log files as well (mysql, apache)  
where despite nagios being part of the appropriate groups still not  
remotely readable.  This is clearly a problem of something running as  
a different user.

Ideas?

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