447922 – net-analyzer/nrpe - init script fails to create /var/run/nrpe

Bug 447922 - net-analyzer/nrpe - init script fails to create /var/run/nrpe

Summary: net-analyzer/nrpe - init script fails to create /var/run/nrpe

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Sysadmin Bugs

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Reported:	2012-12-20 09:30 UTC by Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED)
Modified:	2012-12-20 13:09 UTC (History)
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improved init script (nrpe.init,732 bytes, text/plain) 2012-12-20 09:30 UTC, Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED)	Details
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Description Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-20 09:30:48 UTC

Created attachment 332768 [details]
improved init script

latest openrc versions have made /var/run a symlink to /run. and since /run is a tmpfs, init scripts need to create all directories in /var/run *sigh*

the attached init script fixes this issue.

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-20 13:09:22 UTC

Or you could make sure to update your configuration file so that it does not use /var/run/nrpe to store the pidfile.

nrpe is executed as root, so it'll create its pidfile as /var/run/nrpe.pid. Your init script would change /var/run's owner to nagios:nagios which is incorrect and a big security problem.