[hobbit] Run local custom script as root?

[Kauffman, Tom]

We use sudo for some tests. For others, we run root cron jobs that
generate a flatfile to be parsed by the hobbit client. One of the errors
that the client will generate in these cases is the flatfile being over
10 minutes old. This also is used to monitor SAP CCMS alerts (CCMS is
the SAP environment internal monitoring toolwhich requires you to be
logged into SAP to see the results -- we have an ABAP program that
creates a flatfile for hobbit).

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias Zepf [mailto:matthias.zepf at junidas.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:41 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Run local custom script as root?

Hi, I am new to Hobbit. I searched the Hobbit mailing list archive  
but did not find an answer to the following question:

Is there a (save) way to run a local custom script as root? Some  
checks require root permissions, e.g. smartctl on Linux does not work  
even when you have group rights on the device (e.g. /dev/hda). Or is  
running a Hobbit script as root a bad idea at all?

Thanks for your help!

Matthias


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