Error using NSclient: Return code of 139 is out of bound

emily zhou zhoue at algonquincollege.com
Tue Mar 30 17:19:04 CEST 2004


Hi Andreas,
Thank you for your ideas. But there is no anti-virus software installed 
on that box. I think I'll forget about it for now, as I'll upgrade the 
whole server from machine to software Nagios (I noticed newest ver. 
1.2). After that, to see what happens.

Emily

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> emily zhou wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have monitored NT/2000 using NSclient for CPU, Mem and Disk check 
>> for a long time, no problem at all until today I found error mesgs 
>> shown "Return code of 139 is out of bound" about one 2000 box. The 
>> puzzle is
>> that Checking CPU for this box is working fine but Disk and Mem check 
>> have that error occurred.
>
>
> This could theoretically happen if you have some misbehaving 
> anti-virus software running (or viruses, which always misbehave. ;-) ).
> Check your eventlogs and any runtime virus-detection logs you have. If 
> you can't find it there, you can try setting the user NSClient runs as 
> to 'SYSTEM' (is that default?) to make sure any obscure security 
> enhancing programs you have in place doesn't touch it. This isn't 
> recommended however, since any bugs in it might result in arbitrary 
> code execution from remote locations as the system user.
>
>> I have no idea what's going on, I restarted the Nagios daemon 
>> (running on Soaris 8) and NSclient agent, no any luck. I just wonder 
>> if someone could help, thanks a lot.
>>
>> Emily Zhou
>> Unix Admin
>> Algonquin College
>>
>




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