check_file_age NRPE: Unable to read output

[sandeepvreddy]

Hi,

I am trying to get file age with check_file_age plugin.

When I ran check_file_age command getting correct output, I used following command:

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/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_file_age -f /tmp/test -w 100 -c 200 

Output:
FILE_AGE CRITICAL: /tmp/test is 1673 seconds old and 10 bytes

I added same above command in nrpe_local.cfg & following is line in my nrpe_local.cfg

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command[age]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_file_age -f /tmp/test -w 100 -c 200

After adding above command I restarted nrpe daemon with command "service nagios-nrpe-server restart"

Now If I run above command using check_nrpe, the output is "NRPE: Unable to read output"

I used following command:

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/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H localhost -c age

Output:
NRPE: Unable to read output

From past 2 days I am trying to debug this issue, but unable to get any clue.
Someone please help me to resolve this issue.

Thanks,
Sandeep.

[abrist]

Sandeep,
Lets first make sure that you can communicate through nrpe:

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/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H localhost

If that works, then lets try to run the plugin as user "nagios":

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su nagios
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_file_age -f /tmp/test -w 100 -c 200 

Could you post a copy of the remote host's nrpe.cfg that you are working with?

[sandeepvreddy]

This issue is due to file permissions of user.

For my user home directory file permissions are set to 700, I changed it to 755 with chmod.

After changing file permissions its working without any issue.

[tmcdonald]

Great to hear. Can this topic be closed now?