NRPE RHEL 5.7 Installation step failed - exiting.

[nyoung]

I'm trying to install NRPE on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.7 (Tikanga) box and I am coming across with this error below. I typically work in a windows environment and the few linux machines that have NRPE are centos 5 (never had any problems following the instructions in the pdf). Is there a workaround?

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cd /tmp
wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/agents/linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz
tar xzf linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz
cd linux-nrpe-agent
./fullinstall

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INSTALLING EXTRA PLUGINS...

real    0m0.005s
user    0m0.002s
sys     0m0.003s
sed: can't read /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe: No such file or directory
Subcomponents installation failed - exiting
RESULT=1

===================
INSTALLATION ERROR!
===================
Installation step failed - exiting.
Check for error messages in the install log (install.log).

If you require assistance in resolving the issue, please include install.log
in your communications with Nagios XI technical support.

The script that failed was: './A-subcomponents'

[abrist]

Are you installing this as root? These directories should be created during the install, but you need to run the ./fullinstall from the /tmp directory as root.

[nyoung]

Yes, I am doing this as root. I have successfully followed these steps many times with Centos.
I do see NSCA but not NRPE. (not even /usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe)

[scottwilkerson]

Can you run the following on the server and report what happens

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yum install xinetd

[nyoung]

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[root@hqdw1 upgrade]# yum install xinetd
Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
epel                                                                     | 3.6 kB     00:00
Setting up Install Process
Nothing to do
[root@hqdw1 upgrade]#

[sreinhardt]

OK, it seems that it tried to install, but isn't listing what steps it has taken. Just to be 100% sure try:

yum list installed xinitd
rpm -qa | grep xinetd

[nyoung]

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[root@hqdw1 ~]# yum list installed xinitd
Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
epel                                                     | 3.6 kB     00:00
Error: No matching Packages to list

[root@hqdw1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep xinetd
xinetd-2.3.14-13.el5

[sreinhardt]

There is definitely something wrong with yum, have your registered your redhat installation?

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subscription-manager list | grep Status:
rhn_check

Then lets check what channels you are subscribed to:

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yum repolist all 

[nyoung]

Does this mean that the system is not registered? It is a dev box purchased from ibm.

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[root@hqdw1 ~]# subscription-manager list
Error: You need to register this system by running `register` command before using this option.

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[root@hqdw1 ~]# yum repolist all
Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
epel                                                     | 3.6 kB     00:00
epel/primary_db                                          | 3.8 MB     00:03
repo id                repo name                                  status
epel                   Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x8 enabled: 7,363
epel-debuginfo         Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x8 disabled
epel-source            Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x8 disabled
epel-testing           Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - Te disabled
epel-testing-debuginfo Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - Te disabled
epel-testing-source    Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - Te disabled
rhel-debuginfo         Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Server - x86_64  disabled
rhel-debuginfo-beta    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Server Beta - x8 disabled
rhel-source            Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Server - Source  disabled
repolist: 7,363
[root@hqdw1 ~]#

[slansing]

Yes the system should have to be registered before you have access to certain "if not all" repos from your RHEL server.

https://access.redhat.com/site/document ... ments.html