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Hi All,

I need to check service statuses of linux from Nagios Monitoring tool.

Is there any plugin to check service statuses of linux?

I wrote one shell script for this:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

host="$1"

service="$2"

t=`/etc/init.d/$service status`

if echo "$t" |grep -q running; then 

echo "OK - $service service is running."

exit 0

else

echo "Critical - $service service is stopped."

exit 2

fi

But it is working from terminal. But it is not working from nagios. Actually for example `/etc/init.d/acpid status` is not executing when nagios calling.

how do I make it to execute correct? or Is there any way to get needed result?

Please help!

that isn't really what nagios is used for

look into puppet [/url][url=http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet]http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet

Well you can do this, what's stopping you is the shell that nagios is given.

cat /etc/password | grep nagios

as you can see its set to /bin/false

usermod --shell /bin/bash nagios

and you script will work as expected.

This is a security risk, but I'm not going to get into that. just wanted to let you know a workaround.

This is exactly what Nagios is used for

I will have a look at you script and send a replacement if you still need one.

Kobus

Ramesh

hijinks

foucault

Kobus