Re: setuid safe for df?
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:59:57AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having a problem at the moment with nagios monitoring of disk space.
>
> When a filesystem is mounted in a directory that's inaccessible to the
> nagios user, df doesn't work for it.
>
> Is df considered safe to be setuid?
>
> Any other suggestions?
Use sudo?
Setup your /etc/sudoers so the nagios user can run df without a password, then
configure Nagios to use "sudo df" instead of just "df" (I'm just learning
Nagios myself, so I don't know how you might do the second part)
Cheers,
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