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I emailed the developer of this plugin, and I got this response. It all makes sense now. Somehow, I missed that you always need a seek file. If you are using more than one check on a log file, make different seek files as noted below. The plugin should run just fine as root.  What might be happening...

Simple Diagram of Network without backbone structure. Nagios XI -> cloud/internet -> Remote Linux Server with NRPE configured We are using this via a NRPE check through a Remote Linux Sever to check its own log files. On this Remote Linux Server I have placed check_log3.pl file in /usr/local/nagios/...