Non obvious 127 plugin error

[Giorgio Zarrelli]

Hi,

I'm curious. Please, do a su - as the apache user and execute the check as that user.

Ciao,

Giorgio

Il giorno 01/giu/2011, alle ore 20:50, Craig Stewart <Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com> ha scritto:

> Giorgio,
> 
> Here's the final command:
> 
> [1306952706.565337] [2048.1] [pid=3753]   Done.  Final output:
> '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dig -H 72.45.111.250 -l www.xplornet.com
> -a 142.166.86.46 -w 0.5 -c 1 -t 5'
> 
> I assume that's what you meant?
> 
> I'm also seeing this in the debug log:
> 
> [1306952721.202757] [016.1] [pid=3753] HOST: TS-WIN-DNS-1, SERVICE:
> DNS-Check, CHECK TYPE: Active, OPTIONS: 0, SCHEDULED: Yes, RESCHEDULE:
> Yes, EXITED OK: Yes, RETURN CODE: 127, OUTPUT: (null)
> 
> 
> 
> Craig Stewart
> Systems Integration Analyst
> Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com
> Xplornet - Broadband, Everywhere
> 
> On 06/01/2011 02:20 PM, Giorgio Zarrelli wrote:
>> Please,
>> 
>> Switch on debug and paste here the "final command"
>> 
>> Ciao,
>> 
>> Giorgio
>> 
>> Il giorno 01/giu/2011, alle ore 16:47, Craig Stewart
>> <Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com> ha scritto:
>> 
>>> Good day folks,
>>> 
>>> I've spent the better part of a week using Google and combing forums for
>>> an answer to this question without much luck.  First the specs:
>>> 
>>> Nagios version 3.2.3
>>> Nagios and associated plugins installed on CentOS 5.6 and Fedora 15
>>> servers via package management (i.e. yum)
>>> 
>>> I have a couple plugins that simply won't execute.  One of which is the
>>> check_dig command.  I'll use this for an example.
>>> 
>>>> From the commands.cfg file for Nagios:
>>> 
>>> define command{
>>>   command_name    check_dns
>>>   command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dig -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -l
>>> $ARG1$ -a $ARG2$ -w $ARG3$ -c $ARG4$ -t $ARG5$
>>>   }
>>> 
>>>> From the Nagios log file:
>>> 
>>> [1306863226] Warning: Return code of 127 for check of service
>>> 'DNS-Check' on host 'TS-TOR-DNS-1' was out of bounds. Make sure the
>>> plugin you're trying to run actually exists.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Okay, first to see if it exists:
>>> 
>>> [root at nms ~]# locate check_dig
>>> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dig
>>> [root at nms ~]#
>>> 
>>> Ownership and permissions check:
>>> 
>>> [root at nms ~]# ls -l /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dig
>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 nagios nagios 43292 Mar 23 15:42
>>> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dig
>>> [root at nms ~]#
>>> 
>>> Try running it as root:
>>> [root at nms ~]# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dig *BLANKED* -l *BLANKED*
>>> -a *BLANKED* -c 5 -w 0.25
>>> DNS OK - 0.005 seconds response time (*BLANKED*. 900 IN A
>>> *BLANKED*)|time=0.004967s;0.250000;5.000000;0.000000
>>> 
>>> So it works as root.  Now to try as Nagios user:
>>> [root at nms ~]# su - nagios
>>> -bash-4.2$ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dig *BLANKED* -l *BLANKED* -a
>>> *BLANKED* -c 5 -w 0.25
>>> DNS OK - 0.005 seconds response time (*BLANKED*. 900 IN A
>>> *BLANKED*)|time=0.004967s;0.250000;5.000000;0.000000
>>> 
>>> It works as the Nagios user as well.
>>> 
>>> So, I'm sure you can see my confusion.  The plugin exists and is
>>> executable for a user on the system, but even when called directly as
>>> opposed to using the $USER1$ macro, the Nagios process can't run it.
>>> 
>>> Any thoughts anyone?
>>> 
>>> Cheers!
>>> 
>>> Craig
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Craig Stewart
>>> Systems Integration Analyst
>>> Craig.Stewart at corp.xplornet.com
>>> Xplornet - Broadband, Everywhere
>>> 
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