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found the problem...
nagios ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/barman need to apear after the definitions of the groups. as described in: http://askubuntu.com/questions/504652/a ... oesnt-work

thanks alot for those who were trying to assist!!!

sorry for late response: when i logged in as root i get the following:

/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check-barman.rb -a backups_available -s angus -w 5 -c 6

1 backups available


su -l nagios -c '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check-barman.rb -a backups_available -s angus -w 5 -c 6'

no output

i tryed both options: command[check_barman]=sudo /usr/bin/barman check --nagios angus and command[check_barman]=sudo /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check-barman.rb -a backups_available -s angus -w 5 -c 6 (and also without the sudo). i also tried the advise of adding * to sudoers file (nagios ALL=NOPASSWD:/...

actually i moved to work directly on barman (barman check --nagios angus) and still same thing happening, also without sudo (when executing it directly with sudo account, its working fine) sudo -U nagios -l Matching Defaults entries for nagios on localhost: env_reset, mail_badpass, secure_path=/usr/...

hi, whenver i use barman plugin, the NRPE respond with "NRPE: Unable to read output". i was adding nagios to sudo without password for this script, and when i execute the command in command line (from root), it apears fine: sudo /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check-barman.rb -a backups_available ...