[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#1063715: monitoring-plugins-common: check_flexlm (monitoring-plugins-standard) fails because utils.pm has empty PATH_TO_LMSTAT

[Christian Ospelkaus]

Package: monitoring-plugins-common
Version: 2.3.3-5+deb12u2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

The command check_flexlm from montoring-plugins-standard is useless
because it relies on the setting PATH_TO_LMSTAT from
monitoring-plugins-common, which is unfortunately empty. AFAIK, no Debian 
package provides lmstat. So I suggest setting PATH_TO_LMSTAT to 
/usr/local/bin/lmstat so that somebody who wants to use the plugin can 
provide a symbolic link under /usr/local/bin/lmstat or place the exectutable 
right there. Even if there were a debian package that provided lmstat, the 
mechanism would still allow to make things work... Thanks for considering my 
suggesion. Here is my patch:

--- /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/utils.pm    2024-02-11 17:57:02.238612539 +0100
+++ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/utils.pm.orig       2024-02-11 17:58:59.337727843 +0100
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 ## updated by autoconf
 $PATH_TO_SUDO    = "/usr/bin/sudo";
 $PATH_TO_RPCINFO = "/usr/sbin/rpcinfo" ;
-$PATH_TO_LMSTAT  = "/usr/local/bin/lmstat" ;
+$PATH_TO_LMSTAT  = "" ;
 $PATH_TO_SMBCLIENT = "/usr/bin/smbclient" ;
 $PATH_TO_MAILQ   = "/usr/bin/mailq";
 $PATH_TO_QMAIL_QSTAT = "";

Best wishes,

Christian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-17-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages monitoring-plugins-common depends on:
ii  libc6  2.36-9+deb12u4
ii  ucf    3.0043+nmu1

monitoring-plugins-common recommends no packages.

Versions of packages monitoring-plugins-common suggests:
ii  icinga2  2.13.6-2

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