bizarre problem with solaris plug-ins and exit code

[aloclarit at aol.com]

Guys

I have nagios 2.0 monitoring a bunch of linux boxes just fine.
Recently I was asked to add a few solaris boxes as well - np or so I 
thought....

I installed the plugins for solaris ans set everything up. I use ssh 
with key auth to execute
commands remotely. After setting up the key stuff I ran some plugins 
manually from the nagios
box and everything worked fine.
HERE is the funky part.
I added this new box to the nagios setup and now I observe the 
following :

All the service checks randomly change states between UNKNOWN and OK. I 
cannot see any logic behind that.
Thing is that the actual Status Info says OK for all of the services 
(which is true cause they ARE OK).
I figured there must be a problem with the exitcodes not being returned 
correctly so I modified one plugin to
actually print the exitcode out. When I run this plugin manually it 
ALWAYS returns a 0 yet nagios seems to receive
and UNKNOWN except every now and then it changes to OK only to change 
back later.
Next I wrote a tiny script that ends with this line (exit 0). In other 
words it should always return a 0.
Funny thing is that even then nagios still seems to receive a -1 for 
some reason I can't figure out.
So my questions are:

1. Why does it randomly chagne states ?
2. How can nagios possibly receive a -1 when running the plugin 
manually always returns a 0 ?
3. How can I check what actual exit code nagios receives ?

Anyone (i know this one is waaay bizarre !!)

thx


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