[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#437357: Bug#437357: nagios2: questionable location of 'nagios' user's home directory

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 08:55:21PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> I am trying to use the nagios plugin 'check_by_ssh'. The issue arises
> every reboot:
> 
> * The directory /var/run is cleaned of all regular files by
>   /etc/init.d/bootclean via /etc/init.d/mountall-bootclean.sh from
>   /etc/rcS.d/S36mountall-bootclean.sh.
> 
> * The 'nagios' user's home directory is /var/run/nagios2/.
> 
> * The check_by_ssh will fail becuase it does not have any knowledge of
>   the host it trying to connect to because
>   /var/run/nagios2/.ssh/known_hosts was removed at boot.

Ouch.

> 2) Change the home directory for the user 'nagios' from a location
>    inside '/var/run' to one in, perhaps, '/home'. Though I do not know
>    what the repercussions of that would be.

Probably /var/lib/nagios.

I do not have the slightest idea what this change implies. I suspect
that the change need extensive testing, which I do not have time to do
at the moment :-8

Greetings
Marc

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