nagios-nrpe (3.2.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium The bug that caused the SSL support between NRPE 2.x and 3.x not to work has been fixed. Because the default SSL support without certificates configured in nrpe.cfg uses pre-generated key data, configuring SSL certificates is strongly advised when STunnel is not used. The ssl-cert package can be used to generate a self-signed certificate, but CA certificates like those from Let's Encrypt are a better choice. SSL support has been re-enabled by default, to be better compatible with previous NRPE versions where SSL support was enabled by default too. The check_nrpe command definition has been updated to enable SSL support (by removing the -n option) and the check_nrpe_ssl command definition has been removed. The previous check_nrpe command definition which disables SSL support is available with the new check_nrpe_nossl command definition. -- Bas Couwenberg Fri, 07 Jul 2017 13:48:38 +0200 nagios-nrpe (3.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium The check_nrpe command definition has been updated to remove the arguments option, because nagios-nrpe-server does not support command arguments since 2.15-1. And the check_nrpe_1arg command definition has been removed. If you're using the check_nrpe_1arg command in your Nagios/Icinga configuration, you need to replace it with check_nrpe. SSL support is disabled by default, the reworked SSL/TLS support in NRPE requires configuration before it can be used. Read the instructions in /usr/share/doc/nagios-nrpe-server/README.SSL.md.gz before enabling SSL support in /etc/default/nagios-nrpe-server. The default check_nrpe command in check_nrpe.cfg has been updated to disable SSL by default too. The check_nrpe_ssl command has been added to connect to the NRPE daemon over SSL. Beware that the new NRPE daemon only works with old check_nrpe plugins when SSL support is disabled on both sides, likewise the new check_nrpe plugin only works with the old NRPE daemon when SSL support is disabled. To use SSL between the NRPE client and server, configuring Stunnel is recommended. -- Bas Couwenberg Mon, 05 Dec 2016 01:16:46 +0100 nagios-nrpe (2.15-1) unstable; urgency=high This update disables the command-args support in nrpe. The feature has several security problems and is often used wrong. If you have to use this feature recompile the package with --enable-command-args in debian/rules. -- Alexander Wirt Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:52:48 +0200 nagios-nrpe (2.12-4) unstable; urgency=low The pidfile creation mechanism changed with this update. If you do not add "pid_file=/var/run/nagios/nrpe.pid" to you nrpe config take care that the user "nagios" is able to write to your pidfile location. You can also change the initscript to create the pid directory on your own. -- Alexander Wirt Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:42:13 +0200 nagios-nrpe (2.12-3) unstable; urgency=low The homedirectory of the nagios user moved to /var/lib/nagios which is now common on all nagios related packages. Its recommended that you migrate an already existing nagios user to use /var/lib/nagios as homedirectory. -- Alexander Wirt Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:08:58 +0100 nagios-nrpe (2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low the nagios-nrpe-doc package is no longer provided. the documentation can now be found in /usr/share/doc/nagios-nrpe-{server|plugins}. new versions of the plugin and server packages conflict with the doc package to prevent the old (and possibly incorrect in the future) documentation from remaining. to fully purge all information about the package you should run: dpkg -P nagios-nrpe-doc -- sean finney Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:47:47 +0100