Fwd: Plugin Installation - I have rtfm no help2

[Atul Gosain]

Thanks for such a good response.
May God help you in learning linux

Raj Mudhar wrote:

>hi
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>What do you mean compile it from source.  i just downloaded the plugin... is this not from source?
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>Im new to linux and using this to learn more about it.. my tripwire is installed but i think it needs configuring i dont think its essential to starting nagios though.
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>what you think... i read the installation help file and i need to do the ./configure stuff again for the plugins.  So ill do that.
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>>>>Atul Gosain <atul at mindsw.com> 02/06/03 12:18pm >>>
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>Hi
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>I would rather advice you to compile it from source. Download the source 
>from sorceforge and compile it.
>libexec is the name of directory inside the nagios directory which 
>contains the plugins needed for various service checks.  U can change 
>the name of this directory by changing the $USER1$ variable in the 
>resources.cfg file in etc directory.
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>regards
>Atul
>Raj Mudhar wrote:
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>>Hi Atul
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>>Ok its intalled the rpm .. i did rpm -qa|grep nagios-plugins and the reply was:
>>nagios-plugins-1.3.0-beta2
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>>I did rpm -qil (filename) and it came back with a list of directories and they are all in the usr/lib/nagios/plugins directory apart from some readmes that are in usr/share/doc/
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>>What was all this about the libexec directory? as its not there.. what do i have to do .. has it gone wrong?
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>>Thanks for you initial reply!
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>>>>>Atul Gosain <atul at mindsw.com> 02/06/03 11:50am >>>
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>>Hi
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>>First check rpm -qa|grep nagios-plugins to see whether its installed or 
>>not. Most probably it will be installed.
>>Ur problem is that tripwire has not made entries for newly installed 
>>files in its database. For this run tripwire again to make its database 
>>again. I dont remember the exact syntax.
>>For seeing what files are installed by a particular rpm just do rpm -qil 
>>nagios-plugins-1.3.0-bets2(this name u can get by rpm -qa).
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>>Regards
>>Atul
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>>Raj Mudhar wrote:
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>>>Hi again,
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>>>Just to let you know when i did do the rpm -i (nagios file)  all it said in return was that i had new mail in my var/spool/mail/root  
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>>>when i goto the root file it says that 
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>>>*****error: Tripwire database for Nagtest1 not found ******          (Nagtest1 is my machine name)
>>>*****Run /etc/tripwire/twinstall.sh and/or tripwire -init*****
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>>>Im not sure what this is.. but I dont think the RPM installed at all. :(
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>>>the command i used is rpm -i nagios-plugins-1.3.0-beta2.i386.rpm and i ran this from  /  (before root where i ran my nagios core prog from)
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>>>Hope this helps.
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