Nagios-Plugin and NRPE issues

[Andreas Ericsson]

Ayotunde Itayemi wrote:
> Good day all,
> 
>  
> 
> I have 2 issues
> 
>  
> 
> 1. I can't get NRPE to run under inetd's control on AIX 5.3 (it works
> fine as a stand-alone daemon)
> By the way, has anybody been able control NRPE with the SRC subsystem on
> AIX? I can add it
> but other commands such as checking the subsystem status does not work.
> 

Perhaps a privilege issue? Grep your daemon syslog file for "nrpe".

>  
> 
> I used the following line in my /etc/inetd.conf file but when I test it
> using check_nrpe I always get
> 
> 
> 
> CHECK_NRPE: Response packet had invalid CRC32.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> nrpe    stream  tcp     nowait  nagios /nagios/sbin/nrpe -c
> /nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 2. I haven't been able to get the Nagios-Plugins to compile successfully
> with SSL enabled.
> 
> And also even though nrpe appears to compile with SSL, running ldd on
> the nrpe executable does
> 
> Not list libssl.a as a required library
> 
>  
> 
> My version of ssl is OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005
> 
> I am back to OpenSSL 0.9.6l 04 Nov 2003 which I got from Bullfreeware
> now.
> 
>  
> 
> I have tried all sorts of configure options (some examples are as
> follows)
> 
> Most terminate with some error that the ssl library could not be found
> (even though the file
> 
> Is in /usr/local/lib/libssl.a)
> 

.a files are static archives. This means they won't get listed in the 
ldd output.

If you do

nm nrpe

you should get quite a few symbols containing, somewhere among them, the 
string "ssl" (possibly uppercase though).

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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