Going Nuts trying to get check_by_ssh to work

[steve f]

If I remember, that line is in the sshd.config for the auth users banner.  I should be able to comment it out to test it.

Didn't think about that...  I'll dial in when I get home & try it..

Thanks Benny for the info,
Steve

> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:22:35 -0500
> From: benny at bennyvision.com
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Going Nuts trying to get check_by_ssh to work
> 
> 
> > I also tried this as well from the server , which does work....
> >
> > ssh 172.xx.xx.xx /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_users -w 5 -c 8
> >
> > Authorized users only.
> >
> > USERS OK - 0 users currently logged in |users=0;5;8;0
> >
> >
> > This tells me that
> > 1.  ssh as Nagios works
> > 2.  the check_users script runs on the remote client fine
> > 3.  2 - way communication is good between the client & sever as I got the
> > response back
> >
> > I am thinking there has to be something funky in the  check_by_ssh script.
> >  Sound right ??
> 
> Waitaminute...  Where did that "Authorized users only" part come
> from?
> 
> Nagios expects a single line of text, and SSH commands typically
> don't display banners (in my experience).  Is that a banner that
> appears from the remote host?  I wonder if that is confusing
> things.  Can it be temporarily disabled to see if it changes the
> behavior?
> 
> Benny
> 
> 
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