| Summary: | net-analyzer/nagios-core: /etc/init.d/nagios should set HOME | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) <wschlich> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Netmon project <netmon> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | eldad, ks, ramereth |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 172480 | ||
Fixed in nagios-core-2.9 and nagios-plugins-1.4.6. |
When /etc/init.d/nagios starts the nagios daemon as user 'nagios', HOME is kept as /root instead of setting it to, for example, /var/nagios. See: $ pgrep -n -u nagios -x nagios | xargs -n 1 -i cat /proc/{}/environ | xargs -0 -n 1 echo | grep '^HOME=' That makes it impossible to use a .my.cnf in ~nagios/ for check_mysql or other check plugins that could use or even need special config files in ~nagios/ (check_by_ssh is another example). Solution: 1. Do not set the home directory of 'nagios' to /dev/null, use /var/nagios, /home/nagios or something else that can be used to put files into. 2. Add "-e HOME=/path/to/nagios/home" to the start-stop-daemon call in /etc/init.d/nagios I have tried it and it works fine.