NRPE/SSL error - solution

Greg Haygood ghaygood at brightlane.com
Fri Sep 26 14:21:18 CEST 2003


I don't have a debian box to check, but you should have the char devices 
/dev/random and /dev/urandom.  Make sure they are world-readable (0644).

-g

Federico A. Gregorio wrote:
> guys,
> 
> how do i do this in debian?
> 
> thanks.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ethan Galstad" <nagios at nagios.org>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 7:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE/SSL error - solution
> 
> 
> 
>>Good digging - I'll get this added to the FAQs.
>>
>>
>>On 25 Sep 2003 at 13:18, Greg Haygood wrote:
>>
>>
>>>RE: CHECK_NRPE: Error - Could not complete SSL handshake
>>>
>>>I ran into this NRPEv2 / SSL error in my environment yesterday, but
>>>only with my Solaris 7 & 8 systems.
>>>
>>>After wringing my hair out and digging around with truss, I figured
>>>out the problem on my Solaris 8 boxen.  The files
>>>/devices/pseudo/random* (linked through /dev/*random, and provided by
>>>Sun patch 111238) were not readable by the nagios user I use to launch
>>>NRPE.  Making the character devices world-readable solved it.
>>>
>>>My lone sol7 box is still a mystery, since it's using the prng stuff
>>>and no the Sun patch.  But the sol8 systems are more important,
>>>anyway. Maybe I'll use it as an excuse to update that guy ....
>>>
>>>Hope this helps some other frustrated folks ....
>>>
>>>-g
>>>
>>>--
>>>Greg Haygood
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>>>BrightLane, a TeamStaff, Inc. Company
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>>
>>
>>Ethan Galstad,
>>Nagios Developer
>>---
>>Email: nagios at nagios.org
>>Website: http://www.nagios.org
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