Re: Missing character in plugin output

Mark Clayton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.nagios.plugins.devel
Message-ID <CAJv0My-oRRR+yzuxCsBtmx2ftkvzgOsCpsKfhWn8+vNX7NfNNQ@mail.gmail.com>
Bret & Feri,

Oh how embarrassing.. You are both right. HDTEMP is (null) because hddtemp
needs root privileges.

I assumed I would be rusty after all these yeas but not so much to miss
something this amateurish.

Thank you for your help and forgive me.

Blessings,
Mark Clayton
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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:14, Ferenc Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mark Clayton <[email protected]> writes:
>
> >     HDTEMP=$(/user/sbin/hddtemp $DRIVE | awk '{ print $4}' | awk -F '°'
> '{ print $1}')
> >
> > root@little-harbor:/home/mark# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_hddtemp -d
> /dev/sda
> > (/dev/sda)=36 C.
> >
> > But Firefox and Safari show:
> >  Disk Temperature<
> http://little-harbor.local/cgi-bin/nagios3/extinfo.cgi?type=2&host=localhost&service=Disk+Temperature
> >
> > OK 2012-01-16 13:14:550d 4h 8m 22s 1/4(/dev/sda)= C.
>
> /usr/sbin/hddtemp probably requires elevated privileges, which it has
> when run from a root shell, but not when run by Nagios.  You'll probably
> have to configure passwordless sudo from the nagios user to root or disk
> for this command.
> --
> Regards,
> Feri.
>
>
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