Re: [Nagios-devel] NRPE network error messages

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Re: [Nagios-devel] NRPE network error messages

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Jason Martin wrote:
> It would be nice if the my_connect function in utils.c in NRPE returned
> error messages prefixed with "CHECK_NRPE:", as a 'connection refused by
> host' can be confusing if it is not obvious where the refusal came from.
>
> An example would be if using a check_tcp command via nrpe; the refual may
> have come from the nrpe host or the host being targeted by check_tcp.
> Whenever check_nrpe fails to execute the remote plugin it should make it's
> existance known, breaking from its usual 'transparent' nature.
>

It's supposed to do just that.

Are you running the beta-release of the 'all-flavour compatible'
check_nrpe? I pretty much brained that one and removed the
anti-transparency messages. It's been re-added in NRPE 2.2, which is
still in the workshop (code is in flux and can't be released just yet).

> Thanks
> - -Jason Martin

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