[Xymon] Disk not being reported

[David Stuffle]

I have always ran the Xymon client as root.  It's never been a problem and
make things easier.  If that's not an option, change the
xymonclient-linux.sh (or whatever OS you are using) and modify the "df"
command to use sudo.  I've done the same to modify the df command to tell
it to monitor NFS mounted drives when desired.

I'll be watching this thread for a more elegant solution.

David



From:	Scot Kreienkamp <Scot.Kreienkamp at la-z-boy.com>
To:	"xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com>
Date:	01/04/2017 10:43 AM
Subject:	[Xymon] Disk not being reported
Sent by:	"Xymon" <xymon-bounces at xymon.com>



Hi everyone,

I am having a problem with some of my disk reporting.  Postgres requires
700 permissions on its data directory, which in my case is also a mount.
That causes non-root users (xymon) to get a permission denied error when
running checks like inode and df.  I can’t change the permissions on the
directory or postgres won’t start so the only other options I can come up
with are to make xymon run as root (not a good idea), or have it use sudo
to run its disk tests somehow.  Anyone run into this before?  Any words of
wisdom on if it’s possible to use sudo to run the df/inode tests in xymon?


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