NRPE not working... very URGENT

Hi,

my nagios server is on RHEL5 , i have installed nagios-plugins-1.4.13 and nrpe-2.12. But when i check NRPE on the remote server(locally) its not working …

bash-3.00# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H localhost; tail -f /var/adm/messages
CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs for error messages.
Oct 8 12:37:58 term-ser inetd[21119]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] Failed to set credentials for the inetd_start method of instance svc:/network/nrpe/tcp:default (chdir: No such file or directory)

I have installed it correctly… but i am unable to understand the logs…

Can ne 1 help me out here …