[Xymon] Solaris 10 sparc xymon 4.3.10 issue ?

Ralph Mitchell ralphmitchell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 18:56:10 CEST 2012


If something was appending to the /usr/bin/logger binary, you might want to
check your various scripts for code that does:

     ....... > /usr/bin/logger

instead of:

     ..... | /usr/bin/logger

Ralph Mitchell
On Oct 8, 2012 12:50 PM, "Matt Goebel" <goebel at emunix.emich.edu> wrote:

>
> Yes... /bin/logger is a binary...
>
> I seem to have figured out the issue, fping was being run as root by xymon,
> so I did the following :
>
> so I removed the sticky bit from user and group on /usr/local/sbin/fping
>
> then I did the following and restarted xymon
>
> add in : /etc/security/exec_attr
> Network Management:solaris:cmd:::/usr/local/sbin/fping:privs=net_icmpaccess
>
> add in : /etc/user_attr
> xymon::::defaultpriv=basic,net_icmpaccess
>
> Matt
>
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