Comments on: Starting NRPE via launchd

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:46:37 +0000

Configure nrpe with the option

./configure –disable-ssl
make all

and it will work. Just had the same problem here with ssl-handshake and this solved it for me.

Thanks for this great tutorial.

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Plagiarism, flattery and the Internet — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:40:01 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:42:58 +0000

I too am having the same issues as Thu. I really couldn’t get it working based on John’s examples… Anyone else having this problem? Anyone have a fix?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:41:59 +0000

I too am having the same issues. I really couldn’t get it working based on John’s examples… Anyone else having this problem? Anyone have a fix?

By: Oreste

Oreste — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:59:46 +0000

Hi all. I had similar problems under Mac OSX Server 10.6

I always encountered this error:

check_nrpe error could not complete ssl handshake

After checking the error log I noticed that the daemon crashed (and was restarted by launchd) every time a nagios would try to connect. That’s why it couldn’t complete the SSL handshake.

I solved this in 2 steps:
- I chowned the /var/run/nrpe.pid file to the nagios user (in my case “nagios”)
- in the plist I changed the -d with -i (meaning that nrpe should run as service, instead of standalone daemon)

that was it. I hope this helps !