[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#465749: Bug#465749: nagios-plugins: check_mailq broken in sarge by security update‰

[sean finney]

hiya,

On Thursday 14 February 2008 04:19:50 pm Stephen Gran wrote:
> Package: nagios-plugins
> Version: 1.4-6sarge1+b1
> Severity: grave
>
> For some reason, this upgrade replaced the usual exec of /usr/bin/mailq
> with /usr/sbin/mailq.  Since that binary doesn't exist on any of my
> systems, this unsurprisingly fails.

ugh... looks like sarge might need a sourceful update after all.

JFTR, the sarge packages pre-date my maintenance of these packages, so i 
accept no responsibility for such failures :)

security folks: it seems the sarge version of these packages depends on the 
mail-transport-agent providing mailq in the right place.  i'm not sure which 
MTA the security buildd has in place, but we could "force the issue" and 
hardcode the correct path in configure if you want it to be more future 
proof.  just let me know what you want me to do to fix the problem.


	sean
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