[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#465530: Bug#465530: Bug#465530: nagios-plugins 1.4-6sarge1 lacks check_procs

[sean finney]

hiya,

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 10:58:36 pm Luk Claes wrote:
> For the etch version check_procs doesn't seem to be included in
> nagios-plugins and nagios-plugins-standard, but it's included for
> nagios-plugins-basic. For the sarge version it's only missing in the
> i386 version.

the former of which is by design.  

> > the etch and lenny/sid versions both have explicit checks for a mounted
> > /proc in debian/rules (test -d /proc/1), yes.
>
> This check indeed fails very reliably on the s390 experimental buildd,

s390 always seems to be the exceptional port... :)

> couldn't you check with 'test -d /proc/net' or something like that which
>  would work ok?

/proc/self maybe?  mount | grep -qw /proc?  

actually now i think the check may no longer be necessary, since i think in 
releases >> etch i committed a patch upstream that lets you specify the ps 
cmdline syntax (so it doesn't need to autofigure it)


	sean


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/attachments/20080213/77f771f1/attachment.pgp