It looks like you might be running the manual check as root rather than as the same user that NRPE uses. There might very well be some difference in the environment between the two runs that is causing your problem.
Have you tried turning on debug in NRPE on the target system? -- Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 Email:slo...@ku.edu http://www.ku.edu/home/sloane Phone:(785)864-0444 -----Original Message----- From: Eric Aiken [mailto:eric.ai...@hcl.in] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 3:51 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] NRPE - garbage output I've bumped into this a few times in the past. When doing a check_nrpe to a remote server, I get additional "garbage" output that interferes with the nagios check. I was running nrpe 2.11 and found a supposed fix in 2.12. I've since upgraded both the nagios server and client to nrpe 2.12 and restarted everything with no change. If I run the check on the client everything works as expected. If I run it via check_nrpe it doesn't. The following is an example with relevant security changes: On client: # /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/contrib/check_ftp.pl -H SERVERNAME -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD-f index.html OK: Opening ASCII mode data connection for index.html(236 bytes). Transfer complete. client nrpe.cfg entry: command[check_ftp2web]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/contrib/check_ftp.pl -H SERVERNAME -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD index.html On server: # check_nrpe -H SERVERNAME -c check_ftp2web WARNING: server says: Transfer complete. ' ABOR': command not understood Note the garbage and also the different result OK vs WARNING Any suggestions is appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
