[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#545940: check_ircd: argument handling

[Hendrik Jaeger]

Package: nagios-plugins-basic
Version: 1.4.12-5
Severity: normal

The check_ircd plugin works just fine using the commandline using this command:
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ircd -H localhost -p 1984

Configuring this command for nagios:
command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ircd -H '$HOSTADDRESS$' -p '$ARG1$'

This check will return an UNKNOWN state in nagios with an error output:
"invalid port: -H"

The same happens with other constellations.
The solution i found on the web was to remove '-H' so that the command looks like:
command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ircd '$HOSTADDRESS$' -p '$ARG1$'

That command works just fine, so i assume there is an error in the argument parsing logic.

Best regards

Hendrik Jaeger



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (1010, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-hnj-17lenny2
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nagios-plugins-basic depends on:
ii  iputils-ping            3:20071127-1     Tools to test the reachability of 
ii  libc6                   2.7-18           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8g-15+lenny3 SSL shared libraries
ii  procps                  1:3.2.7-11       /proc file system utilities
ii  ucf                     3.0016           Update Configuration File: preserv

nagios-plugins-basic recommends no packages.

Versions of packages nagios-plugins-basic suggests:
ii  nagios3                   3.0.6-4~lenny2 A host/service/network monitoring 

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