Just my two cents, but if ssh is available why not just use the check_by_ssh command to run the script and return the result. <div>On 8/4/05, Andreas Ericsson <<a href="mailto:ae@op5.se">ae@op5.se</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <a href="mailto:Ralph.Grothe@itdz-berlin.de">Ralph.Grothe@itdz-berlin.de</a> wrote: >>You're asking people to help you on their spare time. Most of > > your > >>questions so far have been either no-brainers that you would >>have been >>able to figure out for yourself had you made the effort, or >>of the kind >>that would take considerable effort to answer properly. > > > I know that I waste the time of people who are willing to help > me. > I wasn't remarking on your questions per se, but the fact that you seemed annoyed about an answer you got. That said, I'll just cut to the chase. > >>Did you log in as the NRPE user or did you just su? su'ing >>maintains the >>environment settings of the old user, which will have effect on > > some > >>programs. > > > No simple su-ing. > Even if I had, I would have taken care to do a full "su -" to > also obtain the account's environment. > I am and was logged in under the account that I configured inetd > to run the nrpe server as > (see 5th field, or 4th field for you) > > [saz@inwo2 ] > $ id > uid=102(saz) gid=20(users) groups=102(saz) > > [saz@inwo2] > $ grep nrpe /etc/inetd.conf > nrpe stream tcp nowait saz /usr/local/nagios/sbin/nrpe nrpe -c > /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg -i > > > >>check_hpva.sh prints something to stderr. This causes the >>NRPE daemon to >>miscalculate the checksum. When the plugin does the same it >>arrives at >>an invalid result. > > > > My script isn't writing anything to stderr, and it's outputting a > single line to stdout > (which is I think is in accordance to plug-in developer's > guidelines) > Indeed it is. However, one or more of the commands executed may print something to stderr, which will show up as stderr output. > > [saz@inwo2] > $ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_hpva.sh 2>/dev/null | cat -n > 1 OK: HP Virtual Array "va" on inwo2 all FRUs State > Good > Not good. Or more accurate; Perhaps good. You're redirecting stderr to /dev/null, so it's impossible to know if the script (or any of its commands) print anything to it. -- Andreas Ericsson <a href="mailto:andreas.ericsson@op5.se">andreas.ericsson@op5.se</a> OP5 AB <a href="http://www.op5.se">www.op5.se</a> Lead Developer ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * <a href="http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf">http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users </a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>