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the packaged plugins for rhel8 for nagios core do not provide check_by_ssh.

considering I have already installed the available plugins from their repo (I believe they were in epel actually) and I have a working nagios core install on it and I need only this one plugin in addition to the packaged ones will I break something if I just compile them all from source overwriting them on the basedir install of the rpms (/lib64/nagios/libexec)?

I could just compile them and make install them into /usr/local/nagios/libexec and then symlink only check_by_ssh to the actual basedir that the nagios install refers to, but I don't really want to put too many unused files on the machine for cleanliness.

what do you guys suggest is the best course of action?

Download, compile, make, but don't 'make install'. Instead just copy the check_by_ssh that is created to the location you need it.

https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... e-569.html

thank you, that's the best way to do it.

thank you, that's the best way to do it.

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