Re: [munin-users] Reading from hddtemp

[Ole B. K. <ol...@kv...>]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Mahmood Naderan <nt_...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have created a symbolic link for reading hddtemp. But I get this error:
>
> This field has the following extra information: Command -A /dev/sda on drive
> sda failed: -1. The plugin needs to have read permission on all monitored
> devices.

This error message pretty much says i tall?

The user you are running this Munin plugin as doesn't have the right
permissions.

> [..]
> Also the hddtemp works well:
> mahmood@localhost:www$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda
> [sudo] password for mahmood:
> /dev/sda: Hitachi: 30°C
> What should I do? thanks,

sudo means root permissions.

You can specify the user/group for each plugin:

http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/faq#Q:CanImakethepluginrunasanotherusergroupthannobodynogroup

Note: all of this is pretty good documented on the Munin website :-)

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Ole Bendik Kvisberg