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

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jan Scholten wrote:
> 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. Thanks
>> -Mukarram.
>>
> Seems you need to edit the config file.
> 

Wrong. Just point NRPE to the proper location of it (as per the logmessage).

> 
> The unable to open config file seems to be the problem.

Indeed. So he needs to alter the invocation parameters (which I 
explained in another email earlier).

> Where did you 
> locate the nrpe.cfg on the remote host? /root/ is bad as only root can 
> enter that directory.
> /etc would be a good idea.
> I don't know if you need to add gaias ip (is that the nagios server?), 
> you need to add the IP of the server where the check_nrpe command is 
> executed.
> 
> The logfile seems to tell that gaia is
> a) not the server

No. It says it can't find the configuration file.

> or b) you have installed nrpe on the wrong machine.
> 

Definitely not, as it's NRPE writing the log message.

> 
> You do not need to reboot Linux boxes.. just stop the nrpe daemon and 
> restart it.
> 

Since he's trying to run it from inetd, he'd have to stop and then start 
the inetd daemon, not the nrpe daemon.

Jan, please don't give false answers. Say "I don't know" when you don't. 
It actually helps more than doing what you just did.

Mukarram, look up the proper answers in my previous email in this thread.

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


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