[Nagiosplug-help] check_nrpe build sucks

[Mascardo, Erwin]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de [mailto:Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de] 
>Sent: Thursday, 14 July, 2005 10:09
>To: Mascardo, Erwin; nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-help] check_nrpe build sucks

<snip>

>This is the comment stripped content of nrpe.cfg
>
># grep '^[^#]' /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg 
>dont_blame_nrpe=0
>debug=0
>command_timeout=60
>command[check_tns_FREMD]=@libexecdir@/check_oracle --env
>ORACLE_HOME=/app/oracle/product/9.2.0,PATH=/usr/bin:\$ORACLE_HOME
>/bin --tns FREMD
>command[check_db_FREMD]=@libexecdir@/check_oracle --env
>ORACLE_HOME=/app/oracle/product/9.2.0,PATH=/usr/bin:\$ORACLE_HOME
>/bin --db FREMD
>command[check_login_FREMD]=@libexecdir@/check_oracle --env
>ORACLE_HOME=/app/oracle/product/9.2.0,PATH=/usr/bin:\$ORACLE_HOME
>/bin --login FREMD
>
>
>Unfortunately you didn't reveal one or more of your command
>definitios.
>I'm not sure if the @libexecdir@ construct, which to me looks
>like a macro placeholder,
>really gets expanded correctly.
>But I thought this was compiled in from the --prefix flag during
>configure run.
>
>
>What puzzles me is that you define server_port in nrpe.cfg
>as it should be not needed since the port is registered in
>/etc/services.
>Also it says that nrpe_user and nrpe_group aren't required when
>run under the auspice of inetd.
>The nrpe_user is already in the server definition as 5th field in
>inetd.conf.

Correct, but like I said earlier, it doesn't hurt -- and it was needed
when I tested it as standalone, without inetd.

>That's what I mean with poorly documented.
>This is all not clear to me from the comments since they even
>seem to be contradicting.
>It also nowhere says if and how the "macro" placeholders are
>expanded,
>or if the should be substituted with fixed values by the user.
>
>

Did you by any chance take the nrpe.cfg.in file directly out of the
source distribution and modify that? That's where the "macro"
placeholders came in, and yes, they're supposed to have things
substituted in during the build. I can see where your confusion came
from, then.

You should have ended up with an nrpe.cfg file in the top level of the
source tree after the build, with the substitution done on the macros.
That's how I got server_port defined.

@libexecdir@ should point to wherever your local plugins reside.

--Erwin
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