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authorHolger Weiss <holger@zedat.fu-berlin.de>2014-01-11 16:38:18 (GMT)
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Import most FAQ items from old web site
Import most of the FAQ entries from our old web site. A few outdated questions have been omitted, many of the imported ones were updated in one way or another, and the order of the development-related questions has been changed. Also, the phrasing of some questions has been modified (just to make the headings shorter). For the record, this is the original list of questions from the old web site: General ------- * Who controls the Nagios Plugins project? * What license is Nagios Plugins distributed under? * Who owns the copyright for the Nagios Plugin code? * Can I submit a patch to this project? * Do you accept donations? Compiling --------- * ./configure appears to hang * check_ldap, check_radius or check_pgsql don't compile even though configure output says the required libraries are present * How come check_http/check_tcp doesn't work with --ssl? * How do I compile the Nagios::Plugin perl module? * I can't compile check_mysql on solaris * I get '":types" is not exported by the Params::Validate module' when running tests * Why does Solaris use pst3 for check_procs? Installing ---------- * Some of the root plugins (check_dhcp and check_icmp) haven't been installed. What's happening? * Why aren't my plugins installed as the nagios user? And what about root plugins? Development ----------- * How do I use Git? * Can I add extra tests to the C routines? * Can I use the Nagios Plugins in my own project? * How can I find out more about writing a plugin? * How do I make changes on nagiosmib? * How do I prove the C routines work? * How do I use and update Gnulib? * How do I use the Nagios::Plugin perl module? * How do the test parameters in NPTest.pm work? * Private C APIs
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5# Which user owns the installed plugins?
6
7If you run `./configure` `--with-user=nagios`, then at `make` `install` time,
8the installation will set the ownership of the plugins to the nagios user
9(similarly for `--with-group`). If these options are not set, the plugins
10will be installed with the install user's owner and group permissions - it is
11your responsibility to set other permissions, if required.
12
13The only exception are root plugins. These are under `plugins-root/` and are
14also installed with the install user's owner and group permissions.
15
16If you run:
17
18 make install-root
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20This will set permissions to root, assuming you are either root or using
21fakeroot. If not, the setuid bit is still set, but the plugin may not work
22correctly. This is the behaviour used by coreutils for the `su` binary and is
23duplicated in this project.
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