[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#563090: Bug#563090: nagios-plugins-basic: please include symlinks to check_icmp

[Jan Wagner]

severity 563090 minor
thanks

Hi Justin,

On Wednesday, 30. December 2009, Justin T Pryzby wrote:
> Its behavior depends on its invocation name, but that's not apparent from
> documentation and only executable is available in a default install.
> 
> justinp at justinp:~/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.12/plugins-root$ grep strcmp
>  check_icmp.c if(!strcmp(progname, "check_icmp") || !strcmp(progname,
>  "check_ping")) { else if(!strcmp(progname, "check_host")) {
>         else if(!strcmp(progname, "check_rta_multi")) {

looking into the source, the two programnames just provides a set of defaults, 
which can be used with check_icmp. So I lower the severity, as this is not 
really important for functionality.

With kind regards, Jan.
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