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How to find what user name Nagios uses to check services

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 2:21 pm
by sheetzdw
I am trying to find what user name Nagios uses to check services and what permissions are required.

I have a check that looks for a folder , we replaced the server and copied all folders / files but apparently not all the permissions.
Since the original server is crashed I cant just look at the old permissions.

all other Nagios alerts are working so I am pretty sure it is just permissions that Nagios uses to check+

Here is the error Nagios gives me:

Status Information: Could not construct return packet in NRPE handler check client side (nsclient.log) logs..

Re: How to find what user name Nagios uses to check services

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 10:30 am
by sheetzdw
anyone? is this in the nagios.cfg file?

Re: How to find what user name Nagios uses to check services

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:27 pm
by abrist
Usually, nagios and nrpe will use the 'nagios' user.