Hi Chandana,
----- Original Message -----
Hello All,https://svn.m4u.com.au/repos/neo/platform/puppet/branches/PLAT-302
The Postfix PMDA uses qshape(1) to gather postfix queue stats, by
reading files the various postfix queue directories.
The problem is that all of the postfix queues are only readable by the
postfix user (or root).
Since the postfix pmda (by default) is run under the user pcp, it cannot
gather the necessary stats.
I suspect that the postfix pmda worked correctly when pcp ran as root.
Is there anyway we can make the postfix (or any) pmda run as root ?
All daemon PMDAs start out their life as root, and explicitly switch to
some less privileged user; sounds like we need the following patch, can
you try it and let me know if it works for you?
diff --git a/src/pmdas/postfix/pmdapostfix.pl b/src/pmdas/postfix/pmdapostfix.pl
index e6720ec..acce254 100644
--- a/src/pmdas/postfix/pmdapostfix.pl
+++ b/src/pmdas/postfix/pmdapostfix.pl
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ $pmda->add_indom($postfix_sent_indom, \@postfix_sent_dom,
'', '');
$pmda->add_indom($postfix_received_indom, \@postfix_received_dom, '', '');
$pmda->add_tail($logfile, \&postfix_log_parser, 0);
$pmda->set_fetch_callback(\&postfix_fetch_callback);
-$pmda->set_user('pcp');
+$pmda->set_user('postfix');
$pmda->run;
=pod
cheers.
--
Nathan