nrpe 3.1_6 service control broken on pfSense 2.7.0

TomTheOne

Hi all

nrpe 3.1_5 works smooth on pfSense 2.7.0, after the upgrade to nrpe 3.1_6 the service can not be controled anymore via "Status" > "Services".

[2.7.0-RELEASE][admin@firewall.somedomain.local]/root: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nrpe3.sh start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nrpe3.sh: WARNING: run_rc_command: cannot run /usr/local/sbin/nrpe3

The start command is not anymore located at /usr/local/sbin/nrpe3.

[2.7.0-RELEASE][admin@wmthuwall.weiers.local]/root: find / -name nrpe | grep -i /usr/local/sbin
/usr/local/sbin/nrpe

Changing the path in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nrpe3.sh makes NRPE startable, but the "Status" > "Services" page does still not show NRPE as started.

Did not find out how to solve this; just found out, the PID file is reference is correct.

Any ideas?

Regards
Tom

dneuhaeuser

I have the same problem here!

For the status to work again, in config.xml you need to change the executable line in nrpe service section as well:

                <service>
                        <name>nrpe</name>
                        <rcfile>nrpe3.sh</rcfile>
                        <executable>nrpe</executable>
                        <description><![CDATA[Nagios NRPE Daemon]]></description>
                </service>

matyi.szabolcs

@dneuhaeuser

Unfortunately, it still does not start from the NRPE Service Web interface. I edited the config.xml file to no avail.
As a further attempt, I also edited the file /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nrpe3.sh from nrpe3 to nrpe, but it does not start on the web interface.

nrpe3_enable=${nrpe3_enable-"YES"}
name="nrpe3"
rcvar="${name}_enable"

command="/usr/local/sbin/nrpe3"

The file "/usr/local/sbin/nrpe3" does not exist:

[2.7.0-RELEASE][root@local]/root: ls /usr/local/sbin/nrpe3
ls: /usr/local/sbin/nrpe3: No such file or directory

It can only be started from the CLI with the following command:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nrpe onestart

But then the web interface still shows that it is not running!

A solution can be found here, but there is no patch yet, and an update is unlikely within a few months.
redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14560

dneuhaeuser

nrpe 4.1 is available now and seems to fix all issues!

matyi.szabolcs

@dneuhaeuser

-1

No, there is nrpe 4.1 in version 2.7.0 CE and this is the problem.
The pfSense Plus version (23.05) has nrpe3, which I don't understand because it is also FreeBSD 14.0 (no problem here).

There was an update that solved the problem.

nrpe3.sh has been deleted and now there is only nrpe.

[2.7.0-RELEASE][root@lb2-redir.domain-robot.org]/root: cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nr
nrpe*    nrpe.sh*

Thanks to the developers!

dneuhaeuser

seems that the service entry in config.xml is not updated automatically.

on an untouched system, after update to nrpe 4.1, config.xml still looked like this:

<service>
                        <name>nrpe</name>
                        <rcfile>nrpe3.sh</rcfile>
                        <executable>nrpe3</executable>

with this the service was not starting.
after removing the "3"s I can start the service from web gui.