nrpe unit not found when services try to start on linux server

Question

Am trying to run nrpe services in linux server but got this error nrpe unit not found.

Please help on this issue

Answer 1

You tagged your question with Red Hat 6, so that's what I'm assuming you're running. How did you install NRPE? Is there anything in /var/log/messages?

The following recommendation is for CentOS and Red Hat servers:

I would recommend using the NRPE package from the EPEL repository. If EPEL isn't already installed, you can run yum install epel-release.

Once EPEL is installed, you can then run yum install nrpe Once you do that, your nrpe.cfg file will be located in /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg, and you should be able to then enable and (re)start the nrpe service with: chkconfig nrpe on (which will ensure NRPE starts on system boot), and /etc/init.d/nrpe restart (to restart the service).