Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Couldnt install Nagios client nsca

2011-12-25 Thread Ram Chander
Tried it but doesnt print/log any error

# /usr/sbin/nsca -c /etc/nsca.cfg
# echo $?
0

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Jeppe Toustrup openindi...@tenzer.dkwrote:

 On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 10:19, Ram Chander ramqu...@gmail.com wrote:
  /usr/sbin/nsca --daemon -c /etc/nsca.cfg   ( doesnt start )
 
  # telnet 0 5667
  Trying 0.0.0.0...
  telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
 
  There are no errors on compilation.

 Have you tried to start nsca without the --daemon flag to see if it
 prints out any error messages? Perhaps there is a verbose/debug flag
 you can put in? (I am not very familiar with managing Nagios.)

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Couldnt install Nagios client nsca

2011-12-25 Thread Jeppe Toustrup
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 10:31, Ram Chander ramqu...@gmail.com wrote:
 Tried it but doesnt print/log any error

 # /usr/sbin/nsca -c /etc/nsca.cfg
 # echo $?
 0

Does the config file contain a daemon setting, which is causing it
to daemonize even though you don't provide it with the --daemon
flag?

Perhaps there is an command line option to tell it to don't daemonize?

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Couldnt install Nagios client nsca

2011-12-25 Thread James Carlson
On 12/25/2011 4:19 AM, Ram Chander wrote:
 
 # telnet 0 5667
 Trying 0.0.0.0...
 telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

I don't know anything about this nsca program, but I'd suggest using
either telnet localhost 5667 or telnet 127.1 5667 rather than
attempting to use 0 as an alias for the local system.

It's a bit of an old Solaris bug that allows address 0 to work as a
local address (even though it's not a valid address), and there's no
guarantee that it will work on any modern Solaris system.  A simple bug
fix could easily break it.

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