Can't seem to get NRPE installed

[jsmurphy]

Nagios will run just fine fully featured as a VM, in fact every install I've ever done has been virtualised on one platform or another. You need to point it at the library, the best way to think about it is: libssl is a set of code that it can compile into an application... openssl on the other hand is already an application.

I'm hunching that's not actually where the devel package is installed... it should be in /usr/lib/ or something sane like that. However you may still be able to use that vmware lib to install it.

[jbruyet]

Hi jsmurphy, and I apologize for assuming you had abandoned me. I noticed this morning that my thread had kicked over to a second page and there was your post. ANYWAY, regarding ./configure --with-ssl=/path/to/ssl none of the paths I've used have worked. Some examples:

/usr/lib
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32/libssl.so.0.9.8
/usr/lib/openssl

I thought that maybe going for the openssl would change something because I did the path to both ssl and ssl-inc:
./configure --with-ssl=/usr/lib/openssl --with-ssl-inc=/usr/include/openssl --enable-ssl

but I still get:
./check_nrpe: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So should the --with-ssl point to a folder or a file in the folder? And when I tried pointing --with-ssl to the openssl why did the check_nrpe command still say it can't find the libssl file(s)?

Thanks,

Joe B

[scottwilkerson]

Can you run

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locate libssl.so.0.9.8

to find the real path to the file...

[jbruyet]

Hi scottwilkerson, here's what I get with locate libssl.so.0.9.8:

[root@link nrpe-2.13]# locate libssl.so.0.9.8
/home/jobee/Downloads/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/lib32/libssl.so.0.9.8
/home/jobee/Downloads/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/lib32/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8
/home/jobee/Downloads/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8
/home/jobee/Downloads/vmware-tools-distrib/lib/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8
/lib/.libssl.so.0.9.8e.hmac
/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8e
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32/libssl.so.0.9.8
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8
/usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8
[root@link nrpe-2.13]#

I used both /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32/libssl.so.0.9.8 and /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32/libssl.so.0.9.8/libssl.so.0.9.8 but no joy.

[jbruyet]

Ok, out of a masochistic "It's a sunny Saturday and I'm working so I'm going to hurt myself" kind of attitude I tried the install again and it worked. Please, no one slap me but previously I was reinstalling nagios-plugins-1.4.15 and this time I installed nrpe-2.13. Now when I run ./check_nrpe I get a screen of information informing me that I didn't use valid command line arguments.

Thank you, jsmurphy, for working on this with me. I really appreciate your helpful attitude.

Thanks,

Joe B

[jsmurphy]

Well it was an extremely prolonged process but I'm glad you got it working in the end and no worries