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wleming

That worked!

Thank you so much for the explanation here! Know after reading everything it makes sense.

Thank you very much again.

wleming

From running:

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XXXX@support:~$ grep nag /etc/passwd

I get

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list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/usr/sbin/nologin
nagios:x:1001:1001::/home/nagios:/bin/bash

So by your question and my result it is safe to assume that a nagios user has not been created.

wleming

These were the instructions that my co-worker used:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... untu-14-04

wleming

I don't have a set "nagios" user. I just compiled from source and made the "nagiosadmin" as in the instructions. Should I add this to the users of the system as well? Would this not create a possible security issue of having a user with "admin" rights?

wleming

I will investigate this. For now I have been running as an admin user that has root settings.

wleming

Yes, sorry for not including that.

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######### 'check_nrpe' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_nrpe
        command_line    $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTNAME$ -c $ARG1$

Thank you very much.

wleming

Hello everyone and thank you for your time. My nagios core 4.1.1 server is running on Ubuntu 14.04 and was compiled from source. Client I am trying to monitor is running Ubuntu 14.04 and the NRPE package was used. I created a command to check the state of the chrome web browser in /etc/nagios/nrpe.c...

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