Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:34:22PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
>>Marc Haber wrote:
>>
>>>The directory to chroot to should be configurable at compile time to
>>>help FHS-compliant distributions. On Debian, the directory to use
>>>would be /var/run/nsca, by example of sshd.
>>>
>>
>>At run-time, I'd say.
>
>
> Even better, one would have to worry about input processing though.
>
Not sure I follow you there.
>
>>>As sean has already said, this breaks as soon as the nagios daemon
>>>re-creates the named pipe for some reason.
>>
>>True. That means setting the jail-dir at compile-time goes out the
>>window though. It would be better to grok the jail from the nagios
>>config file.
>
>
> That, however, rules out the possible simplest implementation of
> allowing multiple command_file directives in nagios.cfg since nsca
> won't be able to grok its chroot location from there.
>
But if we do this there's no need to support multiple command_file
directives. It's the cleanest solution.
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