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--- monitoring:nrpe_install [2021/01/01 21:25]
127.0.0.1 external edit
+++ monitoring:nrpe_install [2023/11/18 16:13] (current)
manu [Compile NRPE for AIX]
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-===== NRPE installation and configuration =====
+====== NRPE installation and configuration ======
 First install NRPE on the Nagios server and on the client to monitor.
@@ Line 79: / Line 79: @@
 # /etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios reload
 </cli>
+===== Compile NRPE for AIX =====
+On AIX binary files or RPM start NRPE as root
+To change it, recompile **nrpe.c**
+Get latest source from github, and modify using the followin paragraph, starting line 2587 on version 4.1.0
+<code>
+#endif
+/* Last Modified: 2022-07-18 line 2587 */
+                        if (full_drop) {
+                                /*setuid(uid) doesn’t work on aix but doesn’t return -1 either*/
+                                if (setuid(uid) == -1)
+                                        logit(LOG_ERR, "Warning: Could not set UID=%d", (int)uid);
+                                /*setuid(uid) returned anything but -1*/
+                                else
+                                        /*if the current uid still isn’t geteuid() setuid failed and thus we SETEUID(uid)*/
+                                        if (uid != geteuid())
+                                                if (SETEUID(uid) == -1)
+                                                        logit(LOG_ERR, "Warning: Could not set effective UID=%d", (int)uid);
+                        } else if (SETEUID(uid) == -1)
+                                logit(LOG_ERR, "Warning: Could not set effective UID=%d", (int)uid);
+                }
+</code>

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