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Hello,
Can you please let me know the procedure of updating nrpe from 2.8 version to 2.12 .

Appreciate your efforts.

Regards,
Yousuf

How did you previously install NRPE? Here is the recommended way to upgrade, as it is shown in our documentation, if you installed NRPE following one of our guides:

Please see Section 5:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf

Thanks for the quick reply. It was perviously installed by someone. I am supporting and would like to upgrade it to latest version.

Regards,
Yousuf

My reply still stands, you will need to find out how it was installed, by my assumption would be the way the document describes.

Hi,

I'm also looking to upgrade but I'm going from nrpe-2.13 to nrpe-2.14 for security reasons. I saw the announcement about the release of nrpe-2.14 here: http://www.nagios.org/news/77-news-anno ... 4-released

After downloading the source and inspecting the nrpe.spec file. It looks like the option to run nrpe under xinetd instead of as a service has been removed. Do you know if that's the case or can I simply configure the nrpe.spec file to work with xinetd?

Any information is appreciated. Thanks,

Devin

It should work with xinetd. There should be xinted configs in the sample-config directory in the nrpe source tarball. You will need to add "nrpe 5666/tcp" to the /etc/services file and copy over the nrpe.xinetd file from the sample-config to the file /etc/xinetd.d/nrpe. You will need to install xinetd from your package repos as well.

Thanks I'll give it a try and report back

Devin

Let us know how it goes.

Typically an upgrade would go like this (if the original install was from source)