NRPE upgrade question / more than one kb output

[Andreas Ericsson]

Steffen Poulsen wrote:
>> [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] På vegne 
>> af Andreas Ericsson
>> Steffen Poulsen wrote:
>>> If anybody knows if there is a spec for the NRPE protocol 
>> available, we would like a pointer to it.
>>
>> It's in the code. If you've got the brains to change it, 
>> you've got the brains to read it.
> 
> Thanks for the trust in us :-)

You're welcome ;-)

> We did try our first efforts, but from our reading the source it seems
> the NRPE protocol/current implementation expects fixed size messages
> which didn't make much sense to us as a design choice - we will give it
> another glance.
> 

It does send fixed size messages. Once upon a time, such an implementation
made tons of sense, because it made it possible to get the code out in
the open quickly, and it was a lot easier than doing it with arbitrarily
sized buffers, especially since Nagios didn't (back then) accept plugin
input above 1024 bytes anyways.

Good luck in your endeavours though.

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