RHEL 5.3 with nagios

[Harry Hoffman]

better yet, just add the epel repo and you'll get all of the latest
nagios plugins.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Cheers,
Harry


On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 12:16 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:10:51PM -0700, Virgilio Antonio Araujo wrote:
> > Hi everbody.
> > I work on IT company who has a lot of servers with RHEL OS and two
> > news RHEL 5.3.  My question is someone had sucess to compile
> > nagios-plugins and nagios-nrpe on RHEL 5.3?  On RHEL 5.2 works well.
> > 
> > Above the error.
> > [root at spas077elc nagios-plugins-1.4.13]# cat /etc/issue
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
> > Kernel \r on an \m
> > 
> > [root at spas077elc nagios-plugins-1.4.13]# ./configure
> > --with-nagios-user=nagios
> > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> > checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> > checking for gawk... gawk
> > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> > checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> > checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> > checking for gcc... gcc
> > checking for C compiler default output file name...
> > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> > See `config.log' for more details.
> > 
> > Thank you and sorry for bad english.
> 
> Looks like you don't have a C compiler installed.  yum install gcc
> should solve this.
> 
> In addition, you might consider using the nagios RPM's from EPEL[1]
> instead of building from source.  This will keep things a little
> "cleaner" in case you need to reintsall or upgrade later.
> 
> Ray
> 
> [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>