NRPE and NMAP problems?

[Hiren Patel]

Keller, Mark D wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can't seem to find anyone else with this problem, so hopefully this is the right place to ask.
> 
> I am using NRPE 2.12 on many systems. We have an NMAP scan that happens daily. In the logs for our systems we get the following during the nmap scan:
> 
> Aug 12 14:02:33 myserver nrpe[12265]: Error: Network server getpeername() failure (107: Transport endpoint is not connected)
> Aug 12 14:02:33 myserver nrpe[12265]: Daemon shutdown
> 
> I can recreate the error by running: nmap -sT -p 5666 localhost
> 
> The funny thing is that nrpe doesn't actually shutdown, but it does remove the pid file. So any restart scripts that rely on the pid file, now fail.
> 
> Could I be doing something wrong or is this a bug? I can repeat this on Linux, Solaris, and AIX with NRPE 2.12.
> 

it seems like a bug to me, although I haven't been able to reproduce it 
on ubuntu.
could you test the attached diff to see if it helps any.
thanks.
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