Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp issues warning and does not run

[Andreas E. <ae...@op...>]

Nguyen, Tham wrote:
> Okay the problem is solved.
> 
> 
> 
> Before I had this in the localhost.cfg:
> 
> 
> 
> define service{
> 
> use                                           generic-service
> 
> host_name                                sun-ae-server001
> 
> service_description                     ICMP
> 
> check_command                       check_nrpe!check_icmp
> 
> }
> 
> 
> 
> Changed this line check_nrpe!check_icmp to check_icmp and it worked
> fine.
> 

Yes, because now you're running check_icmp from the local host, which is
a completely orthogonal issue (and possibly not what you wanted).

> 
> The setuid bit works though; just the config file is not set
> properly.  The error message (Warning: This plugin must be either run
> as root or setuid root ) is ambiguous!!!
> 

There's nothing ambiguous about it. Anyone with basic knowledge of
administering a unixy system knows what it means. The rest show up
here or in some usergroup where they get educated.

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