[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#739254: nagios-plugins-basic: check_ssh causing remote servers to log Connection reset by peer messages.

[Jim Barber]

Package: nagios-plugins-basic
Version: 1.5-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Today I updated the nagios-plugins* packages from version 1.5-1 to 1.5-2 on
our Icinga server.
After that, remote hosts being monitored by the check_ssh plugin were logging
error messages like the following:

         sshd[7315]: fatal: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer [preauth]

The rsyslog daemon on the monitored hosts is placing these messages in their
/var/log/auth.log files by default.

The Icinga server is checking these hosts around every 5 mins each, and they
all email these messages back to the system administrators via logcheck.

I downgraded the nagios-plugins* packages back to version 1.5-1 on the Icinga
server again and the messages ceased to occur on the monitored hosts.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nagios-plugins-basic depends on:
ii  iputils-ping           3:20121221-5
ii  libc6                  2.17-97
ii  libssl1.0.0            1.0.1f-1
ii  nagios-plugins-common  1.5-2
ii  procps                 1:3.3.9-2
ii  ucf                    3.0027+nmu1

nagios-plugins-basic recommends no packages.

Versions of packages nagios-plugins-basic suggests:
ii  icinga  1.9.3-2+b1

-- no debconf information

Regards,

-- 
Jim Barber