NRPE problems...

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, mjn wrote:

> Any ideas as to why I might be getting this error with my newly installed
> NRPE:
> 
> [root at genome init.d]# ./nrpe status
> nrpe dead but subsys locked
> 
> I cannot seem to get the daemon to load properly even though starting it
> gives an "OK".
> 
> I checked /var/log/message and it says this about the startup:
> 
> Jun 25 11:29:17 genome nrpe[27253]: Network server bind failure (98:
> Address already in use)
> Jun 25 11:29:17 genome nrpe: nrpe startup succeeded
> 
> Why is it trying to bind to port 98 instead of 5666?
> 
> Help would be appretiated. Thanks.
> 

stop nrpe
Remove the nrpe lock file - probably /var/lock/subsys/nrpe
run netstat -a to make sure nothing is holding onto the port.

-sg

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