Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ...

2013-01-14 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
I would try to run a basic script which logs the nrpe environment into a file. it will make sure what is available to you and what not. test if: there are environment vars.. there is a STDOUT\IN\ERR available etc.. #!/usr/bin/env ruby f = File.open(/tmp/nrpetest.log,a) f.sync = true f.puts

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ...

2013-01-14 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Eliezer, thanks for your reply. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 05:41:28PM +0200, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: I would try to run a basic script which logs the nrpe environment into a file. it will make sure what is available to you and what not. test if: [...] modify the above to make sure

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ...

2013-01-08 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello all, following up to myself ... On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 08:31:21PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: [...] However, it got weirder: if I strace the nrpe process, everything works as desired: [...] I found no further hints in the strace log, but this led me to assume that there is some NRPE

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ...

2012-10-15 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello John / Tech Support, thanks for your reply, and sorry for the delay in answering. On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 03:10:13PM -0400, Tech Support wrote: Whenever I've had a problem with a plugin, and was trying to figure out what was going on, I've had 100% success using a little PERL script

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ...

2012-10-10 Thread Tech Support
simplicity. Regards; John -Original Message- From: Florian Ernst [mailto:florian_er...@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 2:14 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ... Hello Peter, thanks for your reply

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ...

2012-10-09 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Peter, thanks for your reply. However, as previously written, I know of the peculiarities that might arise once sudo joins the team, and in the issue at hand sudo is no more involved than being used for illustration purposes while the issue itself doesn't even remotely touch sudo at all.

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ...

2012-10-09 Thread Peter Kaagman
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Florian Ernst [mailto:florian_er...@gmx.net] Verzonden: dinsdag 9 oktober 2012 20:14 Aan: Nagios Users List Onderwerp: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ... Hello Peter, thanks for your reply

[Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ...

2012-10-08 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello all, given a fairly well-running monitoring setup with about 18k services I thought I had understood the basics. However, the following leaves me clueless, and I hope I'm merely missing something obvious here: On an up-to-date Debian Squeeze (i386) OpenVZ guest I have established that my

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ...

2012-10-08 Thread Peter Kaagman
...@gmx.net] Verzonden: maandag 8 oktober 2012 20:31 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Onderwerp: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Unable to read output; but works when run under strace ... Hello all, given a fairly well-running monitoring setup with about 18k services I thought I had understood the basics