NRPE processes hanging around

[Ethan Galstad]

Ton Voon wrote:
> Hi Ethan,
> 
> Just to let you know that we've discovered a problem on a customer site 
> where lots of NRPE processes were left around on the server. There were 
> significant packet loss detected by their network team, so my guess is 
> that SSL connections were being severed while NRPE was waiting for them 
> to be established.
> 
> The patch is to set a timeout for the overall connection of nrpe. It 
> would make sense to have a timeout for the entire fork of NRPE, but 
> since my_system sets a timeout, this is not possible.
> 
> Details here: http://altinity.blogs.com/dotorg/2006/10/nrpe_ssl_connec.html
> 
> Ton

Thanks Ton!  As you can see, I'm playing catchup with patches. :-)  I'll 
get this committed to CVS and make an NRPE 2.6 release shortly.


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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