NRPE/SSL error - solution

[Ethan Galstad]

Good digging - I'll get this added to the FAQs.


On 25 Sep 2003 at 13:18, Greg Haygood wrote:

> RE: CHECK_NRPE: Error - Could not complete SSL handshake
> 
> I ran into this NRPEv2 / SSL error in my environment yesterday, but
> only with my Solaris 7 & 8 systems.
> 
> After wringing my hair out and digging around with truss, I figured
> out the problem on my Solaris 8 boxen.  The files
> /devices/pseudo/random* (linked through /dev/*random, and provided by
> Sun patch 111238) were not readable by the nagios user I use to launch
> NRPE.  Making the character devices world-readable solved it.
> 
> My lone sol7 box is still a mystery, since it's using the prng stuff
> and no the Sun patch.  But the sol8 systems are more important,
> anyway. Maybe I'll use it as an excuse to update that guy ....
> 
> Hope this helps some other frustrated folks ....
> 
> -g
> 
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> Greg Haygood
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Ethan Galstad,
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