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I have two servers, both running 12.04 server, and nagios-nrpe-server.

On both, I have configured the command check_apt, which runs /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt.

On both, nagios-nrpe-server is configured to run as the nagios user.

Unfortunately, on one of the servers, I always receive an OK signal with 0 updates when, from a different server, I run /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H hostname -c check_apt, despite there being updates.

I followed this through and noticed that on one server, check_apt runs as the nagios user and does indeed return with a warning or critical when required.

The other, problematic server, always says 0 updates required when run as the nagios user, but will always give the correct response when run as root.

On this problematic server, I also note that the MOTD always displays the wrong number of packages. It's as if neither commands are allowed to access the number of updates for a server.

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  • What groups are these two Nagios users in?
    – jrg
    Mar 6, 2013 at 12:13
  • su to the nagios user and try and run it manually?
    – popey
    Mar 6, 2013 at 12:33
  • 1) the nagios users are only in 1 group: nagios
    – SuperMatt
    Mar 6, 2013 at 13:00
  • 2) SUing yeilds the same results. One server works fine, the other does not.
    – SuperMatt
    Mar 6, 2013 at 13:00
  • @jrg making sure you got the OP's reply. SuperMatt: Unless you include 'at' (@) and the users name, they usually won't get your comment.
    – Seth
    Mar 8, 2013 at 0:23

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You can use sudo to run this command as nagios user. nagios user has to execute this command:

nagios  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt

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