Added test cases for utils_tcp

[nagiosplug.git] / lib / utils_base.c

diff --git a/lib/utils_base.c b/lib/utils_base.c
index db21ea15b47a746d0762fddca98129a4b1ce589b..da281286d80332624d54bae62f22bf41dd39e7ca 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/utils_base.c
+++ b/lib/utils_base.c
@@ -228,3 +228,18 @@ char *np_escaped_string (const char *string) {
        data[j] = '\0';
        return data;
 }
+
+int np_check_if_root(void) { return (geteuid() == 0); }
+
+int np_warn_if_not_root(void) {
+       int status = np_check_if_root();
+       if(!status) {
+               printf(_("Warning: "));
+               printf(_("This plugin must be either run as root or setuid root.\n"));
+               printf(_("To run as root, you can use a tool like sudo.\n"));
+               printf(_("To set the setuid permissions, use the command:\n"));
+               // XXX could we use something like progname?
+               printf("\tchmod u+s yourpluginfile\n");
+       }
+       return status;
+}