Comments on: Starting NRPE via launchd

By: Rob McLean

Rob McLean — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:16:54 +0000

Hi Andy: I know your plist was right according to the documentation, but it took many hours of experimentation to discover that the only way I could get it to work was to use the ProgramArguments only. Who knows why.

Thanks very much for your tutorials … very helpful.

By: arfore

arfore — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:50:55 +0000

Rob,

This may be a working fix, however according to the documentation provided by Apple, this should not be necessary.

Providing the name of the daemon as the first item in the ProgramArguments array is a fallback for not listing the daemon as the string in the Program key.

Andy

By: Rob McLean

Rob McLean — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:07:48 +0000

I had all of the same problems with Config file ‘//nrpe.cfg’ contained errors, aborting…

This was in OSXServer 10.5.8 …

… was able to get it to work by symlinking nrpe.cfg to the root directory …

… but a better fix was to change the launchd plist file from:

Program
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe
ProgramArguments

-c
/usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg
-i

to:

ProgramArguments

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe
-c
/usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg
-i

For some reason, the Program argument in the original .plist was preventing the ProgramArguments from being sent … so the cause of the” ‘//nrpe.cfg’ contained errors, aborting…” message was that the config file location was not being sent to the daemon, and nrpe had no path to find the config file at other than “/”

Hope that helps. This may be specific to higher versions of 10.5 server …

By: William Ottley

William Ottley — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:27:56 +0000

I keep getting the error:

Config file ‘//nrpe.cfg’ contained errors, aborting…

I’ve tried all the suggestions by putting ln -s for:

/etc/nrpe.cfg
/users/nagios/nrpe.cfg

nothing seems to help.

yet it works fine in standalone….

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:51:12 +0000

This worked for me:

cd /etc
ln -s /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg .