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I'm running Nagios XI on CentOS 6.9 on VMWare. I was having a problem installing the NRPE client on a Linux box running CentOS 7.3 and I followed the instructions on your site to manually uninstall NRPE. I then tried to re-run the ./fullinstall and the script aborts saying it's already installed. How can I re-install NRPE?

Thanks,
Craig

Hello, @crnewman. It's hard to tell without knowing how you installed nrpe in a first place. Because there are multiple ways to do that. Do you still have a link to the installation tutorial that you used?

Second, you should go over the steps in the tutorial one more time.
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... e-741.html

Third, you may search the system for nrpe files and folders: And then remove everything that has the nrpe name on it.

That should do it.

The OP needs to remove or rename the directory created by extracting the nrpe package, probably in /tmp, extract the package, then run fullinstall. The installation creates files that tell it what installation steps succeeded, so it can resume in the event of a failure.

Thanks for the input, @gormank!

@crnewman, Were you able to get this resolved?