<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> The problem was that xinetd has its own environment vars that were not being passed until I told it to do so. Now I can run './check_nrpe -H 10.200.2.50 -c check_db' with nrpe config alias as: check_db=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_oracle --db DBPRD but I cannot have the alias as: check_db=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_oracle --db $ORACLE_SID it passes an empty variable to the program. but only if it's run remotely from nagios very strange. It works when logged in as nagios running locally. I'm not even attempting to pass any $ARGS$. Vonnahme, Nathan wrote: > > Why do you have redundant "export" statements? > > On the remote machine, try manually running the check with a blank > enviroinment, e.g. > > env - /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_oracle --tns DBPRD > > *From:* nagiosplug-help-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:nagiosplug-help-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] *On Behalf Of > *Justin Amburn > *Sent:* Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:47 PM > *To:* nagiosplug-help@lists.sourceforge.net > *Subject:* [Nagiosplug-help] "check_nrpe -H 10.x.x.x -c check_ora_tns" > ----> "ERROR: CANNOT DETERMINE ORACLE_HOME FOR SID xxxxx" > > > > In the beginning of the check_oracle script I added: > > export PATH=$PATH:/u1/apps/oracle/product/10.2.0/bin;export PATH > export ORACLE_HOME=/u1/apps/oracle/product/10.2.0;export ORACLE_HOME > export ORACLE_SID=BABYCPRD;export ORACLE_SID > ORACLE_BASE=/u1/apps/oracle > > > What am I doing wrong??? > > > </body> </html>