nrpe won't connect - contradictory messages in log

[Whit Blauvelt]

Dear Richard,

Curious. In the present case both systems had NRPE compiled on the same day
with the same flags from the same tar. But one of the systems - the client
in this case - does have an older, inactive installation of Nagios on it.
Looking at NRPE's config log, it doesn't look like NRPE picked up anything
from that. And the directories used are totally different. Nor was any
version of NRPE installed before.

I'm leaning towards the guess that NRPE has a bug when compiled in the
current Ubuntu Hardy environment, and concluding that since I'm not changing
that environment soon, I'd better use SSH instead.

Thanks again,
Whit

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:51:07AM -0700, Richard Remington wrote:
> Dear Whit,
> 
> I have actually seen this contradictory error in the log before but in my
> case I was in a new location installing new versions of NRPE (along with
> Nagios 3.0.6) and while the existing NRPE on the host claimed to be the
> same version as the one I was using on the Nagios host, there was still
> some sort of inherent incompatibility. In my case I was guessing that my
> predecessor had taken some liberties with the source code. I had the
> luxury of having another existing NRPE client that was working and so I
> copied the nrpe binary from the working NRPE client over to the
> non-working NRPE client and then they both worked, and unfortunately, I
> never got to the bottom of it.
> 
> Richard

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