[hobbit] client file check

dOCtoR MADneSs doctor at makelofine.org
Mon Jul 6 21:57:05 CEST 2009


Scot Kreienkamp a écrit :
> Hi everyone…
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> Does anyone know how the client file check works?  My client is running 
> as a non-privileged user and trying to check a file in the Postgres 
> directory, which of course it doesn’t have access to.  I would let it 
> use sudo if I could, but adding sudo to the ls command in the client 
> config doesn’t do anything.  So what mechanism does the client use to do 
> file checks?
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> Thanks,
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> Scot Kreienkamp
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Hi,

You could try something like this :
in local-client.cfg add a section for this host :
[my_host]
file:`sudo ls /your/file`
and in hobbit-clients.cfg add a line in your host section :
HOST=my_host
FILE /your/file YOUR_SWITCHES

anyone disagree with it ?



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