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What is the proper way to remove all instances of nagios and start from scratch. This was compile so should there be uninstall option

Normally, I would say rm -rf the following:

/usr/local/nagios/
/etc/init.d/nagios
/etc/sysconfig/nagios

However, considering it seems like you have a couple of different installs in non-standard locations, it probably makes sense to install a fresh OS. If you have other things running on this server (not really supported anyway), then you could just create a VM and do a fresh Nagios install in the VM. Any VM software should work, but I know we have people using VMWare and VirtualBox sucessfully.

You could try find / -name "nagios*", and remove everything but of course that isn't going to grab nrpe.

Yes it is running as a vm. I might have to do that

If you have a snapshot, you could just roll it back.

yeah I will do that but I never took any previous ones

Please let us know when you are done with the reinstall and if you run into any problems.

ok will do

No rush on our end. Just let us know.