[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#670373: Bug#670373: *something* needs to be done about the client
Alexander Wirt
formorer at debian.org
Wed Jan 2 14:54:42 UTC 2013
tags 670373 wontfix upstream
thanks
Hilko Bengen schrieb am Wednesday, den 02. January 2013:
> severity 670373 grave
> thank you
>
> If nsca clients are upgraded to 2.9.1 before the server, nsca-based
> service monitoring will break badly for those hosts. Non-trivial
> installations are bound to run into this problem, even if they only have
> Debian-based systems.
>
> The 2.9.1 client is not usable in its current state.
>
> The issue should be fixed in time for the wheezy release. I am looking
> for possible client-side workarounds now. A description of the problem
> in the release notes should only be considered as a last resort, IMO.
>
>
> BTW: Quick testing shows that the 2.7.2 client seems to work with the
> 2.9.1 server.
I disagree about the importance. Anyhow, upstream decided that way and I am
not willing to do any patching on the protocol.
You are of course free to join pkg-nagios and to take over nrpe.
Alex
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