Permissions problem

[Adam Mooz]

No, it's not, but that doesn't matter.  I can manually execute the  
plugin, but not via NRPE, so I think something isn't running as  
nagios.  Top says NRPE is running as nagios though.  What user does  
the NRPE run it's scripts as on the remote machine?

On 23-Apr-09, at 3:01 PM, Patrick Morris wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Adam Mooz wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> If I were a betting man I'd say that adm is not the nagios user's
> primary group, and/or you've specified a different group in your  
> xinetd
> config.


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