Hi all, I am trying to install the check_MK agent on an old redhat4 server.
Clearly the yum repositories are no longer available so I have to install everything manually.
To install the agent I am following this procedure
The problem is that the server doesn’t have xinetd, is there a way to start the agent without xinetd?
Hi,
Well, you might want to consider updating the system to a more recent OS. But assuming that’s not possible, you can access the agent over ssh. From the docs you quoted, section 7.3: Invoking over ssh.
If that doesn’t work for you, you can install xinetd (or just inetd; don’t know with these old systems) from a CentOS 4 image; those are still available for download. At the time they were “binary identical” to RHEL.
https://wiki.centos.org/Download
Have you tried running a recent agent on such an old system? The installed bash may be even too old.
unfortunately the server is not updatable.
I did not know the over ssh procedure and reading the documentation I had stopped before 
It worked great in ssh thanks.
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