Disable nagios messages logging

Disable deamon.notice logging:

Problem

Nagios extensive logging into /var/adm/messages

Symtoms

Logging is found in the /var/adm/messages as follows:

Feb 10 03:12:05 HOST inetd[2755]: [ID 317013 daemon.notice] nrpe[13059] from <ip address> 37236
Feb 10 03:12:05 HOST nrpe[13059]: [ID 927837 mail.info] connect from <client fqdn>

or

Feb 15 14:53:34 HOST inetd[521]: [ID 317013 daemon.notice] nrpe[8461] from <ip address> 42690
Feb 15 14:53:35 HOST inetd[521]: [ID 317013 daemon.notice] nrpe[8472] from <ip address> 42692

Resolution

If nagios is under SMF (Service Management Facility) then disable the logging using:

inetadm -m svc:/network/nrpe/tcp:default tcp_trace=FALSE
svcadm refresh network/nrpe/tcp