oh, well this looks like the root cause of bug #659331 thanks to have found this, Stephan.
I tried renaming the second function definition to check() and the script is now back to normal behaviour: root@nagios0:~# /etc/init.d/nagios3 check /etc/init.d/nagios3: 247: check: not found root@nagios0:~# sed -i '209s/status/check/' /etc/init.d/nagios3 root@nagios0:~# /etc/init.d/nagios3 status checking /usr/sbin/nagios3...done (running). root@nagios0:~# /etc/init.d/nagios3 check [... nagios -v output] -- Gabriel Filion -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org