Nagios looking for plugins in wrong directory?

[Jose Pedro Oliveira]

On 2013-04-18 19:11, Tim Wojtulewicz wrote:
> I recently installed the nagios, nagios-common, nagios-plugins, and a
> few of the nagios-plugins-* packages for EL6 from EPEL.  I've run into a
> problem where nagios can't find the plugins at all.  It gives me an
> error 127 when trying to find them, which from the nagios documentation
> means it thinks the plugins aren't installed.  After a bit of debugging,
> it appears nagios is looking for the plugins to be installed in
> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins whereas the nagios packages in EPEL install them
> all in /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins.  Creating a symlink from
> /usr/lib64/nagios to /usr/lib/nagios resolves that issue, but it doesn't
> seem to me that I should have to do that.
> 
> Once I resolved the "not found" problem, nagios moved onto a permissions
> issue.  Calling any plugin results in a 126 error code.  I've tried
> 'chown -R nagios:nagios /usr/lib64/nagios'.  This results in a lot of
> complaints that plugins need to be owned by root or should be setuid
> root.  The permissions on the plugins and all of the directories above
> seem like the nagios user should be able to run the scripts (i.e.
> everything has o+rx at least).
> 
> Any ideas?  Thanks.

Please post the output of the following command:

   rpm -q nagios nagios-common nagios-plugins

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