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Hi All,

Searching for a plugin that can check the status of a service.

Came across this: http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index. ... -of-linux/ however in my case just changing the shell doesn't work (ubuntu 12.04)

How are you all checking the status of "ufw" for example (and others that just show the status via init.d scripts)

Verify that the plugin has executable permissions, and if that isn't the issue it may need root permissions to check the status or some services. You can test the execution of a plugin as the nagios user by running:

I have solved my question by allowing the nagios user to only run the "service xxx status" on the sudoers file, i believe this is safer than giving an actual shell /bin/bash to the nagios user

Good deal!