I there a way to restart xinetd in Linux and nrpe in AIX as a nagios user.
I have instructions not to run this as root.
Please Advice.
Thank You.
restarting xinetd and npre
Re: restarting xinetd and npre
You could make some permission changes to the init script: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd - but this is not suggested.
Alternatively, you could set up a sudoers rule for that specific script, or for the "service" command. This is the suggested method.
The same applies to the nrpe daemon.
Below are a few links to get you more acclimated with the sudoers file:
http://linux.die.net/man/5/sudoers
http://www.garron.me/linux/visudo-comma ... ditor.html
Alternatively, you could set up a sudoers rule for that specific script, or for the "service" command. This is the suggested method.
The same applies to the nrpe daemon.
Below are a few links to get you more acclimated with the sudoers file:
http://linux.die.net/man/5/sudoers
http://www.garron.me/linux/visudo-comma ... ditor.html
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Re: restarting xinetd and npre
This is a more operating system specific question that would be better asked in AIX community forums. We do not have an in house AIX system to test this against but I am assuming you may be able to create a rule for this within the OS. You would need to ask them how to configure the system to allow a selected user to restart specific services without root permissions. This is something you would also need to talk to your AIX admin about and something we can not directly support other than these surface answers as it is non Nagios specific.