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My service checks with nrpe won't work because I don't have the read permissions on the pid file. What is the best practice for getting this to work and how? Could I get the pid file created with read permissions?

error

openssh-daemon dead but pid file exists

I recommend using sudo for this. To do so, you'll need to:

1. Install 'sudo'

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   yum install sudo

2. Add a line to the sudoers config file allowing the check:

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   nagios ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_init_service

3. Comment out the requiretty option:

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   sed -i 's/.*Defaults *requiretty/\#Defaults    requiretty/' /etc/sudoers

4. Change the command definition to have 'sudo ' in front of it, like

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   command[check_init_service]=sudo /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_init_service $ARG1$

Thanks. That worked great!!!

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