[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#640064: icinga-common: Please be consistent: either use hardcoded or customized user/group in icinga initscript

[Patricia Jung]

Package: icinga-common
Version: 1.0.2-2
Severity: normal

Hello,

as I do understand why you're insisting on nagios:nagios as a hardcoded user in the icinga init script, the init script is inconsistent when it comes to this issue: check_config () honours icinga_user/icinga_group settings in icinga.cfg while start() does not. This leads to the problem that icinga won't start up with a completely valid and consistent customized icinga.cfg. 

There are two ways to solve the problem:

1) Implement an appropriate error message in check_config () if $icinga_user != "nagios" or $icinga_group != "nagios".

2) Apply the following patch to /etc/init.d/icinga which allows icinga to start up with customized user/group settings:


--- /etc/init.d/icinga  2012-06-13 11:21:53.626034466 +0200
+++ /etc/init.d/icinga_orig     2012-06-13 11:21:13.234034826 +0200
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
start () {
  DIRECTORY=$(dirname $THEPIDFILE)
  [ ! -d $DIRECTORY ] && mkdir -p $DIRECTORY
-  chown $(get_config icinga_user):$(get_config icinga_group) $DIRECTORY
+  chown nagios:nagios $DIRECTORY

  if ! check_started; then
    if ! check_named_pipe; then

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
 APT prefers stable-updates
 APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages icinga-common depends on:
ii  adduser            3.112+nmu2            add and remove users and groups
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20100314cvs-1 simple mail user agent
ii  coreutils          8.5-1                 GNU core utilities
ii  lsb-base           3.2-23.2squeeze1      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  nagios-plugins-bas 1.4.15-3squeeze1      Plugins for the nagios network mon
ii  ucf                3.0025+nmu1           Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages icinga-common recommends:
ii  nagios-plugins          1.4.15-3squeeze1 Plugins for the nagios network mon

icinga-common suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/icinga/icinga.cfg changed [not included]
/etc/init.d/icinga changed [patch see above]

-- no debconf information


Best

  Patricia
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Patricia Jung 
Senior Software and Support Engineer 

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