OpenSSHJunOSPing.pm - Net:OpenSSH ctl_dir "permission" issue about smokeping HOT 6 CLOSED

maybe it would make sense to create a user specific directory in /tmp and chmod 700 it ... and then point ctl_dir there ...

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Works perfectly.
Have you considered adding this one line of code?
I was not able to make the probe work at all without the "fix".

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I'll be glad to look at any PR you submit :) I do not use the module myself, so testing is a bit difficult for me.

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As a temporary solution I just set the ctl_dir to "/tmp/.libnet-openssh-perl".
As you said earlier, it would be better to have a user specific directory in /tmp.
Since /tmp is regularly (usually on boot) cleared I need to check if the directory already exists and if not create it when Smokeping launches.
I am just not sure WHERE the best place to do something like this is?
Can you advice please, I pretty inexperienced...

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I would do this right before creating the Net::OpenSSH instance ...

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I finally was able to get some free time for more testing.
On two fresh installed systems I did not encounter this error.
I rechecked the permissions on our production system and neither /var, /var/lib nor /var/lib/smokeping are writable by other users than smokeping and root.
For now I just added a new probe section on the FAQ page because this looks like an uncommon problem.

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