Bug 575544

Summary:	nrpe cannot remove it's pidfile
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ruben Kerkhof <ruben>
Component:	nrpe	Assignee:	Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	jose.p.oliveira.oss, lemenkov, pbrobinson, sebastian.gosenheimer
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Description Ruben Kerkhof 2010-03-21 12:28:41 UTC

Description of problem:

By default nrpe stores it's pidfile in /var/run/nrpe.pid.
When you restart nrpe, you get the error "Cannot remove pidfile '/var/run/nrpe.pid' - check your privileges"

This is because nrpe is started as root but drops privileges to the nrpe user. That user doesn't have permission on /var/run/nrpe.pid.

It would be better to move the pidfile to /var/run/nrpe/nrpe.pid, and make the /var/run/nrpe directory owned by the nrpe user.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

nrpe-2.12-12.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:

[root@phy003 ~]# service nrpe restart
Shutting down nrpe:                                        [  OK  ]
Starting nrpe:                                             [  OK  ]

Observe /var/log/messages:
r 21 13:28:07 phy003 nrpe[1400]: Caught SIGTERM - shutting down...
Mar 21 13:28:07 phy003 nrpe[1400]: Cannot remove pidfile '/var/run/nrpe.pid' - check your privileges.
Mar 21 13:28:07 phy003 nrpe[1400]: Daemon shutdown
Mar 21 13:28:08 phy003 nrpe[1601]: Starting up daemon
Mar 21 13:28:08 phy003 nrpe[1601]: Listening for connections on port 5666

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2010-06-18 11:19:32 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nrpe-2.12-13.el5

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2010-06-18 11:22:30 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nrpe-2.12-13.fc12

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2010-06-18 11:22:43 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.el4 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 4.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nrpe-2.12-13.el4

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-06-18 11:22:57 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nrpe-2.12-13.fc13

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-06-18 16:42:41 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.el4 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 4 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update nrpe'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nrpe-2.12-13.el4

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-06-18 16:42:59 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update nrpe'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nrpe-2.12-13.el5

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-06-21 12:55:18 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update nrpe'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nrpe-2.12-13.fc12

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-06-21 13:01:20 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update nrpe'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nrpe-2.12-13.fc13

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2010-06-25 18:13:26 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2010-06-25 18:22:10 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2010-07-09 05:57:58 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2010-07-09 05:59:54 UTC

nrpe-2.12-13.el4 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 4 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.