On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:59:57AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a problem at the moment with nagios monitoring of disk space. > > When a filesystem is mounted in a directory that's inaccessible to the > nagios user, df doesn't work for it. > > Is df considered safe to be setuid? > > Any other suggestions?
Use sudo? Setup your /etc/sudoers so the nagios user can run df without a password, then configure Nagios to use "sudo df" instead of just "df" (I'm just learning Nagios myself, so I don't know how you might do the second part) Cheers, -- Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator Federation of Students University of Waterloo p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
