[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#659331: nagios3: service restart should fail when there is a configuration error

[Gabriel Filion]

Package: nagios3
Version: 3.2.1-2
Severity: normal

The current behaviour of the init script is to quietly succeed a service
restart when there is a configuration error, but without restarting the
service.

While this prevents the service from randomly stopping, it doesn't
tell users that there is actually a problem.

The init script should prevent nagios from being restarted when there is
a config error (as it is now), but it should output the error and exit
with an error status.

One use case for this: when restarting the service through Puppet, it
believes the service restart was successful, even though nothing really
happened and there was an error in the configuration.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nagios3 depends on:
ii  nagios3-cgi                   3.2.1-2    cgi files for nagios3
ii  nagios3-core                  3.2.1-2    A host/service/network monitoring 

nagios3 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages nagios3 suggests:
ii  nagios-nrpe-plugin            2.12-4     Nagios Remote Plugin Executor Plug

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