NRPE gives wrong exit codes

[Ciro Iriarte]

2009/9/7 Hiren Patel <hir3npatel at gmail.com>:
> Ciro Iriarte wrote:
>> Hi, i'm posting this here as it seems more appropriate than
>> nagios-users list. We are running nagios 3.2 on Linux. We're currently
>> migrating most of our check done through SSH to NRPE but found an
>> issue with Solaris 10 hosts. Once the nrpe service is restarted, the
>> first execution works as expected, but the following checks gives
>> EXIT_CODE=0, no matter what is the message (OK or Warning or
>> Critical).
>>
>
> could you switch on debugging on the nrpe server and paste the logs from
> running your tests again please, is this the case with any plugin type
> (something either than check_disk)?
>
>> The execution by hand on the Solaris host works always:
>>
>> ----
>> [solaris ~]$ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 50% -c 10% -p /test
>> DISK WARNING - free space: /test 101125 MB (28% inode=100%);|
>> /test=248599MB;174862;314752;0;349725
>> [solaris ~]$ echo $?
>> 1
>> ----
>>
>> For the first execution I get:
>>
>> ---
>> spmon:/etc/nagios/objects/services #
>> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H billbd2 -c check_disk -a 90% 80%
>> /test
>> DISK CRITICAL - free space: /kml_inst2 76172 MB (21% inode=100%);|
>> /test=273552MB;34972;69944;0;349725
>> spmon:/etc/nagios/objects/services # echo $?
>> 2
>> ---
>>
>> For all the next ones:
>>
>> ---
>> spmon:/etc/nagios/objects/services #
>> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H billbd2 -c check_disk -a 90% 80%
>> /test
>> DISK CRITICAL - free space: /test 76172 MB (21% inode=100%);|
>> /kml_inst2=273552MB;34972;69944;0;349725
>> spmon:/etc/nagios/objects/services # echo $?
>> 0
>> ---
>>
>> Versions:
>>
>> check_nrpe (from openSUSE Build Service)
>> --------------
>> NRPE Plugin for Nagios
>> Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
>> Version: 2.12
>> Last Modified: 03-10-2008
>> License: GPL v2 with exemptions (-l for more info)
>> SSL/TLS Available: Anonymous DH Mode, OpenSSL 0.9.6 or higher required
>> -------------
>>
>> remote NRPE agent (compiled from source)
>> -------------
>> spmon:~ # /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H solaris
>> NRPE v2.12
>> ------------
>>
>> Any ideas?, I have a truss capture of the daemon from a working
>> execution and a non-working execution if anyone would like to check
>> them (don't know if attachments are allowed)
>>

Debug is ON already, but all I get in the logs is the start/stop process:

-------
Sep  7 11:55:48 billbd2 nrpe[11796]: [ID 678021 daemon.notice] Caught
SIGTERM - shutting down...
Sep  7 11:55:48 billbd2 nrpe[11796]: [ID 915785 daemon.error] Cannot
remove pidfile '/var/run/nrpe.pid' - check your privileges.
Sep  7 11:55:48 billbd2 nrpe[11796]: [ID 938771 daemon.notice] Daemon shutdown
Sep  7 11:55:52 billbd2 nrpe[23649]: [ID 601491 daemon.notice]
Starting up daemon
Sep  7 11:55:53 billbd2 nrpe[23649]: [ID 627629 daemon.notice]
Warning: Daemon is configured to accept command arguments from
clients!
--------



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