[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#409772: nagios-nrpe-server: please include inetd support

[Norman Messtorff]

Package: nagios-nrpe-server
Version: 2.5.1-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

NRPE can run as inetd service but is started as daemon-only by default.

Please add an easy way to change between daemon and inetd mode.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages nagios-nrpe-server depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.102        Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                 0.9.8c-4     SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-22       Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages nagios-nrpe-server recommends:
pn  nagios-plugins | nagios-plugi <none>     (no description available)

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diff -dNurp nagios-nrpe-2.5.1/debian/nagios-nrpe-server.default nagios-nrpe-2.5.1-normes/debian/nagios-nrpe-server.default
--- nagios-nrpe-2.5.1/debian/nagios-nrpe-server.default 2007-02-05 13:02:33.000000000 +0100
+++ nagios-nrpe-2.5.1-normes/debian/nagios-nrpe-server.default  2007-02-05 12:54:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # defaults file for nagios-nrpe-server
 # (this file is a /bin/sh compatible fragment)

+# Run as inetd (Default=0, run as Daemon)
+#INETD=0
+
 # DAEMON_OPTS are any extra cmdline parameters you'd like to
 #             pass along to the nrpe daemon
 #DAEMON_OPTS="--no-ssl"
diff -dNurp nagios-nrpe-2.5.1/debian/nagios-nrpe-server.init nagios-nrpe-2.5.1-normes/debian/nagios-nrpe-server.init
--- nagios-nrpe-2.5.1/debian/nagios-nrpe-server.init    2007-02-05 13:02:33.000000000 +0100
+++ nagios-nrpe-2.5.1-normes/debian/nagios-nrpe-server.init     2007-02-05 13:04:58.000000000 +0100
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ set -e

 case "$1" in
   start)
+       if [ "$INETD" == 1 ]; then
+         exit 1
+       fi
        log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
        start_daemon $NICENESS $DAEMON -c $CONFIG -d $DAEMON_OPTS
        log_end_msg $?