Re: [munin-users] iostat-ios: No access to PLUGSTATE

[Nicolai L. <ja...@li...>]

Gabriele Pohl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the new version of Munin 1.3.4
> 
> Plugin iostat_ios wants to write a Plugstate-File:
> use constant STATEFILE => '/var/opt/munin/plugin-state/iostat-ios.state';
> 
> Owner of directory /var/opt/munin/plugin-state/ is:
> # ls -ld /var/opt/munin/plugin-state/
> drwxrwxr-x 2 munin munin 4096 Mar 22 15:21 /var/opt/munin/plugin-state/

The owner is supposed to be the PLUGINUSER from Makefile.conf, usually
"nobody", and the group given by the GROUP variable, normaly "munin".  I
fiddled a good deal with that in the 1.3.4 Makefile:

trunk $ grep PLUGSTATE Makefile
        mkdir -p $(PLUGSTATE)
        $(CHOWN) $(PLUGINUSER):$(GROUP) $(PLUGSTATE)
        $(CHMOD) 0775 $(PLUGSTATE)
        -mkdir -p $(PLUGSTATE)
        $(CHOWN) $(PLUGINUSER):$(GROUP) $(PLUGSTATE)
        $(CHMOD) 0775 $(PLUGSTATE)

It seems likely that something other than the "make install" process
causes the wrong ownership.  The munin-check script is far from perfect
but I think it gets that right.

If the owner is nobody:munin there should never be a problem writing the
state file.

Nicolai