check_by_ssh plugin on rhel8

[dada216]

the packaged plugins for rhel8 for nagios core do not provide check_by_ssh.

considering I have already installed the available plugins from their repo (I believe they were in epel actually) and I have a working nagios core install on it and I need only this one plugin in addition to the packaged ones will I break something if I just compile them all from source overwriting them on the basedir install of the rpms (/lib64/nagios/libexec)?

I could just compile them and make install them into /usr/local/nagios/libexec and then symlink only check_by_ssh to the actual basedir that the nagios install refers to, but I don't really want to put too many unused files on the machine for cleanliness.

what do you guys suggest is the best course of action?

[cdienger]

Download, compile, make, but don't 'make install'. Instead just copy the check_by_ssh that is created to the location you need it.

https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... e-569.html

[dada216]

thank you, that's the best way to do it.

[benjaminsmith]

thank you, that's the best way to do it.

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