<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.6396.0"> <TITLE>errors in messages file</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Hello all, I have set nrpe running on a few production systems, and I am a little concerned with some warnings on the messages files,, can anyone shed some light on this? nrpe does seem to be working fine though as far as nagios is concerned. Nagios runs as a NIS user if that makes any difference??? Warning: Could not get passwd entry for 'nagios' nrpe[3784]: Warning: Unable to change supplementary groups using initgroups() nrpe[3784]: Warning: Could not set effective UID=-1 Warning: Could not get passwd entry for 'nagios' Warning: Unable to change supplementary groups using initgroups() Warning: Could not set effective UID=-1 Starting up daemon nrpe[3784]: Starting up daemon Thanks Stuart </BODY> </HTML>