Package: nagios-plugins Version: 1.4-1 Severity: normal I see in my monitoring: localhost Total Processes WARNING 02-19-2005 11:13:39 0d 11h 48m 16s 4/4 System call sent warnings to stderr (sorry for the long line, that's cut-n-pasted from the web interface)
This is because check_procs invokes ps as /bin/ps -axwo 'stat uid ppid vsz rss pcpu comm args' This results in: steve:~$ /bin/ps -axwo 'stat uid ppid vsz rss pcpu comm args' | head Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html STAT UID PPID VSZ RSS %CPU COMMAND COMMAND ... The Warning line is printed to stderr, resulting in the warn message in the monitor. A note in REQUIREMENTS says: If you have procps 3.1.15, you will need to run configure and then change the PS_COMMAND in config.h to remove the "-" from the ps command Presumably this is also an issue with procps 3.2.5. Since this is difficult to do in an autobuilt environment, I would suggest it's probably easier to patch configure.in, where the ps invocations are defined. Perhaps patching each line to send stderr to stdout, and then pipe to head -n1 to catch errors in the invocation? e.g., ps -axwo 'stat uid ppid vsz rss pcpu comm args' 2>&1 | head -n 1 |\ egrep ... (although 2>&1 may be a bashism, I forget) If you like, I will work out a patch for this, but as I don't remember seeing the problem before, I assume you had a fix that just didn't get forward ported or something. Please let me know if I can be of assistance, and thanks, -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages nagios-plugins depends on: ii bind9-host [host] 1:9.2.4-1 Version of 'host' bundled with BIN ii dnsutils 1:9.2.4-1 Clients provided with BIND ii fping 2.4b2-to-ipv6-10 sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to ii iputils-ping [ping] 3:20020927-2 Tools to test the reachability of ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libldap2 2.1.30-3 OpenLDAP libraries ii libmysqlclient12 4.0.23-7 mysql database client library ii libnet-snmp-perl 5.0.1-1 Script SNMP connections ii libpq3 7.4.7-2 PostgreSQL C client library ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries ii ntp 1:4.2.0a+stable-2 Network Time Protocol: network uti ii ntp-simple 1:4.2.0a+stable-2 Network Time Protocol: daemon for ii ntpdate 1:4.2.0a+stable-2 The ntpdate client for setting sys ii procps 1:3.2.5-1 /proc file system utilities ii qstat 2.7-1 Command-line tool for querying qua ii radiusclient1 0.3.2-8 /bin/login replacement which uses ii smbclient 3.0.10-1 a LanManager-like simple client fo ii snmp 5.1.2-6 NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen -- no debconf information -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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