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Excellent, thanks! When I have time I will see if I can reproduce it on 3.2.1 and, if so, open an issue on github.

This is based on my experience with NRPE 3.2.0 on CentOS 7.4, although based on my reading of the NRPE source it would affect other versions as well. The default /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg indicates in the comments that the nrpe_user and nrpe_group options are ignored if running under xinetd. However, I'v...

Looks like a fix has been proposed and a pull-request submitted for this:
https://github.com/pmkane/nagios-plugin ... d347d0fcb0

This definitely looks like a compatibility issue for Perl versions < 5.16. From perldelta - what is new for perl v5.16.0 - The glob operator : On OSes other than VMS, Perl's glob operator (and the <...> form) use File::Glob underneath. File::Glob splits the pattern into words, before feeding each wo...

I recently updated from nagios-plugins 2.1.3 to 2.1.4 and I am now getting erroneous "file not found" errors when using check_file_age : # /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_file_age -w 300 -c 900 /etc/motd FILE_AGE CRITICAL: File not found - "/etc/motd" # ls -l /etc/motd -rw-r--r--...