plugin installation on remote host

[Slade Edmonds]

Swati Srivastava wrote:

> Hi!!
> I tried to install Nagios plugins on the remote host. But since i 
> didnt do nagios installation there, I got error while doing make 
> install saying that user nagios does not exist.
>
> 1)is it not possible to install the plugins without installing nagios 
> first,

You can install the plugins without installing Nagios.

>
> or
>
> 2)is it not possible to install plugins by any other name? If Nagios 
> user is necessary to exist, can i simply create a user named nagios 
> and proceed?

./configure --help yields:
--with-nagios-user=<user> sets user name to run nagios
--with-nagios-group=<group> sets group name to run nagios

>
> The remote machine is a live gateway, and i'm a newbie, so i have to 
> be extra catious.
> Kindly help,
> Thanks in advance,
> Swati

Slade


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