Nagios Support Forum

Hi,
Similar to another issue reported previously for v3.2.0, v3.2.1 also fails to start as nagios user on multiple versions of AIX. Older versions of nrpe starts as nagios/nrpe user, but v3.2.1 always starts the daemon as root.
Has anyone found a cause for this please ?

[root/] # /opt/freeware/sbin/nrpe -V
NRPE - Nagios Remote Plugin Executor
Version: 3.2.1

[root/] # grep '^nrpe_' /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
nrpe_user=nrpe
nrpe_group=nrpe

[root/] # ps -ef|grep nrpe
root 8454216 1 0 Mar 09 - 0:05 /opt/freeware/sbin/nrpe -c /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg -d

The latest version of NRPE is 4.0.2. Please install this, test, and let us know your results.

https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe

You may also want to consider moving to NCPA(https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/) since the NRPE project has been deprecated.