INETD and NRPE daemon in solaris 8]

[Sudheer Muddappa]

Jim,
It works fine when I start it from the command line.
But no luck with inetd.
I have to start it with rc.local if I cannot make it work with inetd.
If you know how can I make it work with inetd that will help.
Thanks,
Sudheer

Jim Mozley wrote:

> Sudheer Muddappa wrote:
>
>> Can some one help me to make nrpe run as a service or a daemon in  
>> solaris 8 :(
>>
>> I am not able to start the nrpe as a service in sol 8.
>
>
> I'm assuming you mean daemon rather than service as its solaris.
>
>> THis is the entry I have in inetd.conf file.
>>
>> Nothing shows up in logs
>>
>> nrpe    stream  tcp     nowait nagios /usr/local/nagios/nrpe 
>> /usr/local/nagios/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/nrpe.cfg --inetd
>>
>
> One can start it outside of the inetd mechanism as a standalone daemon 
> (with an appropriate run level script) using something like:
>
> /usr/local/nagios/sbin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg --daemon
>
> Jim Mozley
>
>



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Sudheer Muddappa  

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