nrpe-2.0 on Mac OS X

[Paul L. Allen]

Brian Furner writes: 

> I checked my xinetd.d 'nrpe' service file and the service was mistakenly
>  defined as nsca.

That wouldn't help. 

> And in the logfiles on the mac box I see: 
> 
> xinetd[23849]: execv( /opt/nagios/nrpe ) failed: Permission denied
>  (errno = 13)

> The permissions on /opt/nagios are set correctly as far as i know,
>  with nagios as owner and nagios as group (both of which exist as
>  verified by checking NetInfo on the mac).

Check the permsions and ownership of the executable itself and also on
its config file.  If either the executable or the config file are
inaccessible to the nagios user then you'll see that error.  My guess is
that it's the config file being owned by root. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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