[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#1149586: icinga2-common: icinga's logrotate emits "Error while parsing command-line options: the argument for option '--pid' is invalid"

[Tomas Pospisek]

Package: icinga2-common
Version: 2.14.6-1+deb13u1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Dear maintainer,

I am getting from cron:

    /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
    [2026-10-01 06:00:29 +0200] critical/icinga-app: Error while parsing command-line options: the argument for option '--pid' is invalid

I propose to:

    # diff -u icinga2 icinga2.patched
    --- icinga2     2026-07-07 06:21:07.000000000 +0200
    +++ icinga2.patched     2026-10-01 09:49:57.936790425 +0200
    @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
            notifempty
            create 644 nagios nagios
            postrotate
    -               /usr/sbin/icinga2 internal signal --sig SIGUSR1 --pid "$(cat /run/icinga2/icinga2.pid 2> /dev/null)" 2> /dev/null || true
    +               /usr/sbin/icinga2 internal signal --sig SIGUSR1 --pid "$(cat /run/icinga2/icinga2.pid 2> /dev/null)" &> /dev/null || true
            endscript
     }

However a better fix would probably be to have the icinga2 binary emit its option parsing errors on STDERR instead of emitting them on STDOUT...

This same problem is probably present upstream.

Thanks a log for maintaining icinga <3!
*t



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.107+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_CH:de
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages icinga2-common depends on:
ii  adduser         3.152
ii  lsb-release     12.1-1
ii  sysvinit-utils  3.14-4

Versions of packages icinga2-common recommends:
ii  logrotate  3.22.0-1

icinga2-common suggests no packages.