> I understand this and have tried just installing the chroot package > manually also but nothing seems to be going in the right place > (/var/www/nagios is empty after adding the chrooted package). I'm doing > this in a VM so I'm reverting back to a snapshot which is just after > updating the ports tree and starting again. > > What I dont understand is why the plugins dont require the chroot flavor > and how they would work with nagios chrooted. Also, what about the > dependencies such as GD and the like...do they all get chrooted > automagically too and if not, how does it work? > > Is it really possible to get a full nagios implementation (inc. plugins) > chrooted?
The plugins are not chrooted, there is no reason to do so. The main nagios daemon runs outside of Apache's chroot, hence, so do the plugins. Benny -- "NOT WORK SAFE! Extreme animated violence, language, birds, and what appears to be God with a katana." -- SA list
