Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
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:
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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,
Are you running this as your mortal self or as root?
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