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You thought correctly.
i changed pidfile="/run/nagios.lock" in init.d to and error was gone after a reboot. After booting the lock file was created by user root, is that the normal behavior?

Well, i'd welcome any kind of checks for tacacs but i didn't find other than the mentioned.

~ # /etc/init.d/nagios restart * Verifying config files ... [ ok ] * Stopping nagios ... * Failed to stop nagios [ !! ] * ERROR: nagios failed to stop tail -f /var/nagios/nagios.log [1513586156] wproc: host=hidden; service=(null); [1513586156] wproc: early_timeout=1; exited_ok=0; wait_status=0; err...

thank you for the new information, i added the nagios ip to the tacacs server and the plugin immediately worked. In nagios, it nagged about utils.pm not present, duckducked the error and it turns out the lib path must point to the utils.pm folder which must be in the plugin directory. so i had to ed...

the preflight check produced no serious errors. There were duplicate definitions, I removed them but, as expected, that didn't help.

when restarting nagios the log produces: i can't know what pnp version i was using.
i tried uninstalling pnp but that didn't help!
Anything else needed?

Thanks for replying, timeout is not the problem, the result appears instantly, and -v produces nothing more. says that gentoo automagically detects the perl libraries.

Peace, according to https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Network-Protocols/TACACS%20/check_tacacs_plus/details a user says he had to modify the script to include use lib "$perl_library" perhaps you know how to do that? /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins $ ./check_tacacs_plus.pl -H tacacs_s...

Problem solved:
https://monitoring-portal.org/index.php ... ork/#wcf13

that didn't resolve the problem as expected. ./check_esxi_hardware.py -H 10.1.3.3 -U file:/home/nagios/.esxipass -P file:/home/nagios/.esxipass -V ibm -v 20171206 09:10:47 Connection to https://10.1.3.3 20171206 09:10:47 Found pywbem version 0.11.0 20171206 09:10:47 Check classe OMC_SMASHFirmwareIde...