[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#688911: icinga-common: check_apt for localhost

[Elrond]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 06:53:24 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote:
[...]
> In fact the plugin is useless unless you setup automatic updates of the apt
> index (see /etc/cron.daily/apt). So just adding this can leads to false
> results. Therefore I don't think its a good idea to add this by default.

Yep, right!
It would lead to false sense of security alone, yeah.

What about adding the entry commented out and the notice to
create /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic with some useful
content before enabling this service check?


> Alex


Elrond