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No this is from the clients machine to the nagios server

You're trying to check_nrpe FROM the client machine TO the Nagios server? This is likely going to fail because the Nagios server isn't configured to handle that check. Let me know if I'm not understanding this correctly.

No you are right I was being an idiot and had too many windows open. So I went back to my client server and did the following:

Now I get this:

./configure --with-ssl-lib=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

*** Configuration summary for nrpe 2.15 09-06-2013 ***:

General Options:
-------------------------
NRPE port: 5666
NRPE user: nagios
NRPE group: nagios
Nagios user: nagios
Nagios group: nagios

make
cd ./src/; make ; cd ..
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/nrpe-2.15/src'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nrpe-2.15/src'

*** Compile finished ***

If the NRPE daemon and client compiled without any errors, you
can continue with the installation or upgrade process.

Read the PDF documentation (NRPE.pdf) for information on the next
steps you should take to complete the installation or upgrade.

make install

root@ip-:/tmp/nrpe-2.15# make install
cd ./src/ && make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/nrpe-2.15/src'
make install-plugin
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/nrpe-2.15/src'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 775 -o nagios -g nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/libexec
/usr/bin/install: invalid user `nagios'
make[2]: *** [install-plugin] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nrpe-2.15/src'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nrpe-2.15/src'
make: *** [install] Error 2

Did you create the nagios user already?

I thought I had - but will go back and double check.

All right.


should do it.

root@ip-:/tmp/nrpe-2.15# grep nag /etc/passwd
list38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/bin/sh

You need to make the 'nagios' user.

I'm not sure where I missed that... can you point me in the right direction? Did I miss a step?

http://www.box293.com/guides/nrpe/insta ... unix-linux is a good thing to read. Check it out!