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Here's another instance of a plugin not working. Maybe I don't quite understand NRPE... :-/ maxilla.trads.int Service Status Last Check Duration Attempt Status Information DHCP UNKNOWN 2012-12-20 09:45:15 1d 23h 39m 36s 1/1 Warning: This plugin must be either run as root or setuid root.

Ok, so that worked. Also had to repair several duplicate config files. Nagios now boots up. But when i go to one of our tempurature/humidity monitoring devices withing the Nagios web gui, it says the following the following error (see below). I'm wondering if nrpe is installed correctly.... Any thou...

Ok, was able to get nagios started successfully, however, now I'm trying to troubleshoot my config files by enabling one at a time. I've enabled the services.cfg. cfg_file=/etc/nagios3/services.cfg I'm now having trouble figuring out where/how to track down my newest error. Is it 'check_dummy' the c...

Thanks for your help thus far! I'm not experienced at all with Nagios, so thank you. I added the admins & root contacts to the contactgroups.cfg file. Now, when I restart, I get that weird error again about End of File.... See below. Any suggestions on how to get around this? /etc/nagios3/contac...

Ok, here's the entire output! Thanks for ur help! TGIF! root@dogwood:~# sudo nagios3 -v /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg Nagios Core 3.2.3 Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad Last Modified: 10-03-2010 License: GPL Website: http...

Thanks for the updated command. I ran cat on the file and it seemed that kept the spacing formating was in tact this time. however... Still no go :-/ root@dogwood:~# tr -dc [:print:]\\n </etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg.bak >/etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg root@dogwood:~# /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg -v /etc/nagios3/nagi...

@ agriffin, no bueno. All the spacing was taken out of the entire file & everything is jumbled up now. Take a look at the attachment. Mayb we can slightly alter this command here # tr -dc [:print:] </etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg.bak >/etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg Anything else you might suggest? Thanks for ...

Here's the main config && thanks for your help agriffin ! root@dogwood:~# cat /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg ############################################################################## # # NAGIOS.CFG - Sample Main Config File for Nagios # # #######################################################...

After further research, I've found this (see below) and it seemed to fix my initial error. Now I have two new errors (see below). My instinct is, the "fix" for the first error caused the second two. Any ideas? http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html Illegal Macro Output Char...

I've googled the net for answers about my error and I can't seem to find any except for this guy who had the same problem and no one helped him resolve it, nor is there any indication that he did resolve his issue. http://forums.meulie.net/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=847&start=0 Does anyone know wh...