* ERROR: nrpe does not have a start function

496 Views Asked by Barnaby Dawson At 16 November 2025 at 12:22

I installed Nagios-NRPE on a Gentoo virtual machine.

When I tried to start nrpe using /etc/init.d/nrpe start I got the following error:

ERROR:  nrpe does not have a start function.

However I do not get this error on other Gentoo virtual machines on which I have installed Nagios-NRPE.

What might be causing this error?

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Barnaby Dawson On 27 July 2012 at 12:25 BEST ANSWER

In my case it was a simple matter of installing openrc using emerge:

emerge -avq openrc

It seems that openrc provides a necessary service to interpret start for certain scripts including /etc/init.d/nrpe.