Hi everyone, We use Nagios to monitor our systems as well as those of our customers. Nagios seems very daunting at first, but it really wasn't that difficult to setup. It's a great tool. However, the mailing list isn't that helpful, so that's why I've come here. Since this list receives a lot of traffic, I was hoping that perhaps someone could help me out with a Nagios plugin I'm having trouble using. What follows is the original message I posted to the Nagios pluging mailing list on July 20: -------- Hi all, I'm trying to use the "check_rpc" plugin to check the status of NFS running on a server. I've read the documentation for the plugin and tested it in a terminal, like so: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_rpc -H localhost -C nfs /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_rpc -H localhost -C nfs -p 2049 /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_rpc -H localhost -C nfs -p 2049 -u /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_rpc -H localhost -C nfs -p 2049 -t No matter how I run it, the program returns this: Can't fork for rpcinfo: No such file or directory Adding a "-v" for verbose output gives me this: -u localhost 100003 2>&1 | Can't fork for rpcinfo: No such file or directory NFS is definitely running (I've double checked). I've googled for the error messages, but all I've managed to locate so far is a page with the source code for the plugin itself. The error seems to be saying that it can't find the rpcinfo binary, but it's on my system in /usr/sbin/. I've run rpcinfo a few times (i.e. rpcinfo -p) to see if anything is reported, and it is working (it shows nfs plus a few other services). Has anyone come across this before? Have I found a bug? Here is additional info: - Fedora Core 1 running 2.4.22-1.2197.nptlsmp - nagios-plugins-nrpe-2.0-3.rhfc1.dag - nagios-1.2-0.rhfc1.dag - nagios-plugins-1.3.1-10.rhfc1.dag Thanks in advance, Ranbir -- Ranbir Systems Aligned Inc. www.systemsaligned.com
