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problem with ext script

list Paul Root
Mon, 8 Jul 2013 12:10:43 +0000
Message-Id: <user-5d6349684378@xymon.invalid>

Why not just send the output to the server with the xymon command?

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Laidman
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 7:42 PM
To: Operaciones
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] problem with ext script

On 5 July 2013 23:43, Operaciones <user-1e7642c06451@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-1e7642c06451@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
So, when i run the script with xymon, show the error:

ERROR: you must be root

What I generally do in these cases is run the command from root's cron and capture the output in a file that's readable by the Xymon user.  Like so:

*/5 * * * * /sbin/dmraid -r >/tmp/dmraid.out && chgrp xymon /tmp/dmraid.out && chmod 644 /tmp/dmraid.out

Then in the script, in place of "dmraid -r" you just do "cat /tmp/dmraid.out".

J