“Installing” check_http on the server

I could not install Nagios on the remote server, because it lacks a compiler, I don’t have the root password and, besides, I’m too busy to go foraging for software and installing it. Damn.

Would copying the check_http binary suffice? As it turns out, it didn’t. Lots of library errors, because my binary was linked against a different version of OpenSSL and the GNU C library. Damn. See for yourself:

[rudd-o@amauta2 ~]$ nagios/bin/check_http
nagios/bin/check_http: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution to this problem: the brute-force way. I copied the binary, the GNU C library, the OpenSSL libraries and the ld-linux.so.2 program that runs ELF binaries. Check this out:

[rudd-o@amauta2 ~]$ pwd
/home/rudd-o
[rudd-o@amauta2 ~]$ ll nagios/bin nagios/lib
nagios/bin:
total 56
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rudd-o rudd-o 50660 Sep 16 23:25 check_http

nagios/lib:
total 3168
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rudd-o rudd-o  120352 Sep 16 23:31 ld-linux.so.2
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rudd-o rudd-o 1247272 Sep 16 23:28 libcrypto.so.6
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rudd-o rudd-o 1572400 Sep 16 23:30 libc.so.6
-rwxr-xr-x  1 rudd-o rudd-o  279384 Sep 16 23:26 libssl.so.6

Great, now it’s time to make it run. Keep reading.