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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>I am running nrpe in Solaris and I have to launch nrpe as nagios
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg –d<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>After much head banging I discovered that nrpe doesn’t
acknowledge the nagios user ENV assignments at all unless I launch this as the
nagios user. If you launch with sudo it won’t work, and trying to source
a .profile or something in the command doesn’t seem to work either. Is
there some way to configure nrpe to always source a file right after forking so
that ENV parameters are maintained?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>I found this all out by experimenting with running printenv
via NRPE and how it differed when started nrpe in daemon mode as root, via sudo
or from the nagios account. These problems are without question the most flummoxing
to debug. If there is some explanation on how nrpe handles the ENV and how I
can control it I would be greatly appreciative.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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