<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> no the server is RHEL4 (unfortunately, <puke>) There is no jailing going on. All my nagios plugins, both normal and using sudo work via the nrpe on the remote server. My only thought is that the plugin itself does not have a tty and that perhaps this is causing this specific plugin to fail <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Hari Sekhon </pre> Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: <blockquote cite="mid45DC6AD1.8080707@mailnetwork.co.uk" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> Another stab in the dark... the NRPE agent isn't inside a BSD jail is it? My Nagios host refuses to read NRPE's output in a machine that's jailed :( Andy. Hari Sekhon wrote: <blockquote cite="mid45DC6864.80304@googlemail.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> Thanks for the reply, I just tried that but unfortunately it still gave the same result. I have another sudo /etc/nagios/plugin and that works. Also, su-ing to nagios and then running the command by hand works. so I'm still stuck.... <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Hari Sekhon </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </body> </html>