basic help with plugin please (fixed)

[- CT -]

Thanks for all the help.

The default sample nagios.cfg commented resources.cfg out, and stated 
that this file is optional, so I didn't include it. Now it works.

Clayton

Demetri Mouratis wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, - CT - wrote:
>
>  
>
>> I am running into a very basic problem, I am sure everyone here has
>>solved it...
>>
>>I get a "(Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing)"
>>on every status. So I ran nagios in the foreground. I see errors like
>>"sh: line 1: /check_disk: No such file or directory". It looks like
>>nagios is expecting to find the libexec commands in the root directory.
>>
>>How do I set the libexec path? I did the standard installation,
>>/usr/local/nagios. Everything is owned by nagios user and nagios group.
>>The plugins are in the default /usr/local/nagios/libexec. I didn't find
>>setting the libexec path in the document. Also, where is the shell
>>script the error message was refering to?... please help.
>>    
>>
>
>The best approach I've found is to set the user variable $USER1$ to
>/usr/local/nagios/libexec.  Do this in resource.cfg like so:
>
># Sets $USER1$ to be the path to the plugins
>$USER1$=/usr/local/nagios/libexec
>
>Then, configure all your checks with a $USER1$ prefix.  From
>checkcommands.cfg:
>
># 'check_local_disk' command definition
>define command{
>        command_name    check_local_disk
>        command_line    $USER1$/check_disk -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p $ARG3$
>        }
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>Demetri Mouratis
>dmourati at linfactory.com
>
>
>  
>



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