[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#929310: monitoring-plugins-basic: check_ntp_peer does not allow unix socket for "-H"

[Ronny Lindner]

Package: monitoring-plugins-basic
Version: 2.2-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

the help text for the "-H" option states:
 -H, --hostname=ADDRESS
     Host name, IP Address, or unix socket (must be an absolute path)

but it uses "is_host()" to test for a valid ip address or dns-hostname.
This behavior has not changed between 2.2-3 (stretch) and 2.2-6 (sid).

It should either not say "unix socket" in the help text or allow the
usage of unix sockets.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.9
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages monitoring-plugins-basic depends on:
ii  iputils-ping               3:20161105-1
ii  libc6                      2.24-11+deb9u4
ii  libssl1.1
1.1.1b-1+0~20190228092419.10+stretch~1.gbp729d89
ii  monitoring-plugins-common  2.2-3
ii  procps                     2:3.3.12-3+deb9u1
ii  ucf                        3.0036

Versions of packages monitoring-plugins-basic recommends:
ii  libcap2-bin  1:2.25-1

Versions of packages monitoring-plugins-basic suggests:
pn  icinga | icinga2  <none>

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