NRPE compilation on HPUX

[Ciro Iriarte]

2010/2/11 Frost, Mark {PBG} <mark.frost1 at pepsi.com>:
>
>
> It's kind of strange, but I know I had the problem you're having at one
> point, but I no longer seem to have it on HPUX 11.31 (IA64).  I wonder if
> there was some OS patch that was applied that took care of that.  The OS
> level on our servers is shown as "HP-UX B.11.31 U ia64 1200835863" if that
> helps.  swlist does show that we have an installed tcp wrapper package,
> however:
>
>
>
>   HPUX-TCPWRAP                          B.11.31        HPUX TCPWrapper
> daemon
>
>
>
> 'nm' shows that there is a fromhost() entity in /usr/lib/libwrap.sl
> (libwrap.1)
>
>
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, your issue is with the libwrap library which I think
> exists on HPUX, but isn't complete as far as NRPE is concerned.  I never
> spent a lot of time trying to find a generalized solution to this, but
> instead kind of hacked something into nrpe.c where I think I just commented
> out some of the #ifdef HAVE_LIBWRAP code segments.  Note that the fromhost()
> call you're missing is in one of the HAVE_LIBRWRAP sections.  I believe that
> NRPE expects that .  We don’t use TCP wrappers anyway, so it's not a loss.
>
>
>
> I first encountered this issue with PA-RISC HPUX and I believe the way I got
> around was to download the latest tcp wrapper code from the internet, then
> pulled out the function that I was missing (I don't recall if it was from
> host
>
>
>
> My current issue with NRPE on HPUX is twofold -- the lack of some syslog
> capabilities, and that the configure script doesn't correctly find our SSL
> libraries.  I have made the following 2 hacky changes to make ours work:
>
>
>
>
>
> *** configure.old       Mon Mar 31 13:49:11 2008
>
> --- configure   Thu Feb 11 11:07:10 2010
>
> ***************
>
> *** 6676,6686 ****
>
>                         fi
>
>                 done
>
>
>
> !               if test x_$found_ssl != x_yes; then
>
> !                       { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: Cannot find ssl
> libraries" >&5
>
> ! echo "$as_me: error: Cannot find ssl libraries" >&2;}
>
> !    { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
>
> !               else
>
>                         printf "SSL libraries found in $ssllibdir\n";
>
>
>
>                         LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$ssllibdir";
>
> --- 6676,6686 ----
>
>                         fi
>
>                 done
>
>
>
> ! #             if test x_$found_ssl != x_yes; then
>
> ! #                     { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: Cannot find ssl
> libraries" >&5
>
> ! #echo "$as_me: error: Cannot find ssl libraries" >&2;}
>
> ! #   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
>
> ! #             else
>
>                         printf "SSL libraries found in $ssllibdir\n";
>
>
>
>                         LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$ssllibdir";
>
> ***************
>
> *** 6701,6707 ****
>
>                         fi
>
>                         # awk to strip off meta data at bottom of dhparam
> output
>
>                         $sslbin dhparam -C 512 | awk '/^-----/ {exit}
> {print}' > include/dh.h
>
> !               fi
>
>         fi
>
>
>
>                 echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for Kerberos include files"
>>&5
>
> --- 6701,6707 ----
>
>                         fi
>
>                         # awk to strip off meta data at bottom of dhparam
> output
>
>                         $sslbin dhparam -C 512 | awk '/^-----/ {exit}
> {print}' > include/dh.h
>
> ! #             fi
>
>         fi
>
>
>
>                 echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for Kerberos include files"
>>&5
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *** src/nrpe.c.old      Mon Mar 31 14:02:59 2008
>
> --- src/nrpe.c  Thu Feb 11 11:18:34 2010
>
> ***************
>
> *** 613,622 ****
>
>                 log_facility=LOG_UUCP;
>
>         else if(!strcmp(varvalue,"cron"))
>
>                 log_facility=LOG_CRON;
>
> !       else if(!strcmp(varvalue,"authpriv"))
>
>                 log_facility=LOG_AUTHPRIV;
>
>         else if(!strcmp(varvalue,"ftp"))
>
> !               log_facility=LOG_FTP;
>
>         else if(!strcmp(varvalue,"local0"))
>
>                 log_facility=LOG_LOCAL0;
>
>         else if(!strcmp(varvalue,"local1"))
>
> --- 613,622 ----
>
>                 log_facility=LOG_UUCP;
>
>         else if(!strcmp(varvalue,"cron"))
>
>                 log_facility=LOG_CRON;
>
> ! /*    else if(!strcmp(varvalue,"authpriv"))
>
>                 log_facility=LOG_AUTHPRIV;
>
>         else if(!strcmp(varvalue,"ftp"))
>
> !               log_facility=LOG_FTP; */
>
>         else if(!strcmp(varvalue,"local0"))
>
>                 log_facility=LOG_LOCAL0;
>
>         else if(!strcmp(varvalue,"local1"))
>
>
> Hope that's helpful.
>
>
>
> Mark

Thanks a lot for your feedback, I finally had some time to finish this
pending task and took some notes about the procedure.

Ref: http://cyruspy.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/compiling-nrpe-in-hpux-11-31-2/

Regards,

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Ciro Iriarte
http://cyruspy.wordpress.com
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