nrpe giving garbled information in status info

[Jason Marshall]

> I've got the check_disk script on the target machine in /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk and the rootdisk line in my nrpe.cfg is as follows:
> command[rootdisk]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 10% -c 5% -p /
> Is that what you mean?

Yes, that's what I mean.  You're 101% sure it's in the place you say it
is, is executable, and spits out non-gibberish when you run it on the
target machine, right?

> 
> Regards
> Rob
> 
> On 7/22/2003 3:20 PM, Jason Marshall <jasonm at kelman.com> wrote:
> >> ./check_nrpe -H eris -p 5666 -c rootdisk
> >> x¼¨ß¼¨ßUôh - this is what I get
> >
> >I got this while I had the nrpe-based check running on the server, 
> >but no
> >check_whatever script was present on the machine that was supposed 
> >to be
> >running it.  Replace check_whatever with whatever the script in nrpe.cfg
> >is called for rootdisk service...
> >
> >---
> >Jason Marshall, Unix Geek, Kelman Technologies, Inc., Calgary, AB, 
> >Canada.
> >
> >  From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680):
> >    "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."
> >
> >  "I have great faith in fools: 
> >     Self confidence my friends call it."  -Edgar Allan Poe
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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---
Jason Marshall, Unix Geek, Kelman Technologies, Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada.

  From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680):
    "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."

  "I have great faith in fools: 
     Self confidence my friends call it."  -Edgar Allan Poe




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