Help in Running Nrpe inside inetd with TCP Wrappers on FreeBSD.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Mukarram Syed wrote:
> Jan.
> Thanks always for your responses.
> I did add gaia's IP address in the nrpe.cfg file and
> rebooted the system.  
> I have enabled debug mode "debug=1" in the nrpe.cfg
> file restarted inetd, I am getting the following in
> the /var/log/messages:
> 
> Nov 23 20:56:22 gaia nrpe[78179]: Unable to open
> config file '//nrpe.cfg' for reading 
> Nov 23 20:56:22 gaia nrpe[78179]: Config file
> '//nrpe.cfg' contained errors, bailing out...
> Nov 23 20:56:27 gaia nrpe[78188]: Unable to open
> config file '//nrpe.cfg' for reading 
> Nov 23 20:56:27 gaia nrpe[78188]: Config file
> '//nrpe.cfg' contained errors, bailing out...
> 
> I have checked everything but I am sure there is
> something missing...Help would be appreciated. 

You haven't specified a configuration file location. See below.

> Thanks
> -Mukarram.
> 
> --- Jan Scholten <Jan.Scholten at iconz.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Here is my /etc/inetd.conf file with the nrpe
>>
>>line:
>>
>>># Enable NRPE
>>>nrpe    stream  tcp     nowait  nagios
>>>/usr/libexec/tcpd
>>
>>/usr/local/etc/nagios/libexec/nrpe
>>
>>>-i /usr/local/etc/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --inetd
>>


To NRPE, -i and --inetd are the same, and it doesn't look for a 
configuration file by default in the arguments "left over" by getopt(). 
That's why it's trying to fall back to the default hardcoded 
configuration file, which would have been set if you had specified the 
--sysconfdir option at compile time (depending on what version you're 
using).

You need to change this line to
/usr/local/etc/nagios/libexec/nrpe -c /usr/local/etc/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -i

Then things will work nicely, assuming that's where the files are.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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