[Pkg-nagios-changes] nagios-plugins/debian README.Debian, 1.2, 1.3 changelog, 1.20, 1.21

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Index: README.Debian
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pkg-nagios/nagios-plugins/debian/README.Debian,v
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--- README.Debian	6 Oct 2005 09:19:35 -0000	1.2
+++ README.Debian	27 Oct 2005 20:13:06 -0000	1.3
@@ -1,9 +1,39 @@
+================================================================================
 nagios-plugins for Debian
--------------------------
+================================================================================
+
+below is a collection of various bits of information that might be
+helpful to users of nagios-plugins in debian.
+
+================================================================================
+different plugin packages and how to avoid installing massive dependencies
+================================================================================
+
+if you're frustrated by all the crap being brought in by nagios-plugins (for
+example if you're installing nrpe or nsca on a remote host), try the
+nagios-plugins-basic package.
+
+================================================================================
+plugins needing root privilege
+================================================================================
+
+the check_dhcp and check_icmp plugins require root privileges to
+run, because of the low-level packet mangling that they perform.
+but, in the interest of the "safe default", these plugins will not
+be installed with the suid bit set.  there are two recommended ways
+about overriding this on your system:
+
+- set the suid bit with dpkg-statoverride:
+
+# dpkg-statoverride --update --add root nagios 4750 $plugin
+
+where $plugin is the specific plugin you want to grant such privileges.
+
+- use sudo to grant the permissions and modify your plugin config
+
+of these two, the first is recommended because it's the simplest and
+has the same effect as the second.
 
-At the time of this writing MRTGEXT NLM for Novell Servers is not packaged for 
-debian, so check_nwstat is removed for the time beeing, till me or someone else 
-packages it.
 
  -- sean finney <seanius at debian.org>  Thu, 06 Oct 2005 04:48:16 -0400
 

Index: changelog
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pkg-nagios/nagios-plugins/debian/changelog,v
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--- changelog	27 Oct 2005 14:14:57 -0000	1.20
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+nagios-plugins (1.4.2-5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+  * Sean Finney
+    - add documentation to README.Debian about the plugins needing setuid
+      root, why we don't install them setuid root by default, and some
+      recommended methods for dealing with this (closes: #289879).
+    - add documentation to README.Debian about the new package split.
+
+ -- sean finney <seanius at debian.org>  Thu, 27 Oct 2005 22:00:19 +0200
+
 nagios-plugins (1.4.2-4) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Sean Finney: