[Nagiosplug-help] NRPE running as a standalone daemon/ under inetd

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 09/06/09 04:20 PM, Sharada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm getting confused with the nomenclature of standalone daemon and
> inetd. How do you determine if NRPE is running as a standalone daemon or
> under inetd?
> I start NRPE as /etc/inet.d/nagios-nrpe-server start/stop
> 
> Am I running it under inetd?

/etc/inet.d/nagios-nrpe-server seems like a file used by inetd; you
shouldn't start it by hands (are you sure it's not "init.d" which would
mean a rc script to start the daemon??)

Under inetd/xinetd (or any other tcp wrapper) you have to configure
inetd properly to start a nrpe process in inetd mode; then you have to
start inetd so it can listen on port 5666 and launch a nrpe process on
each incoming connection.

In daemon mode, you have to start nrpe once (usually with a rc script at
boot) and it will stay in the background and fork itself a process for
each incoming connection.

- --
Thomas
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