Package: nagios-plugins-basic Version: 1.4.12-5 Severity: normal Tags: l10n
Several plugins produce performance data formatted depending on the locale under which they run. Performance data is supposed to be machine-readable and should come in a fixed format, not depending on the locale. Plugins affected are at least: check_ldap, check_ntp, check_nt, check_dns. (Other plugins once were affected and have already been fixed, like check_load and check_ping.) As a result of this bug, nagiosgrapher cannot interpret the performance data of these plugins in a reliable way. Note that nagios will run under the "C" locale if started at boot time via init, but under the system locale if manually started from a shell, so the results are unpredictable. In bug #509359, a variation of this problem was discussed. It ended with the suggestion to run nagios under the system locale and everything would be fine. I would disagree with that because it means that you would have to change configuration files (for nagios and nagiosgrapher) when the system locale is changed. The rest of my systems continue to run without change when I change the system locale. In bug #531716, basically the same argumentation was used: You get what you configure. To me this philosophy is wrong. Moritz -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: lang=de_de.ut...@euro, lc_ctype=de_de.ut...@euro (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages nagios-plugins-basic depends on: ii iputils-ping 3:20071127-1 Tools to test the reachability of ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 SSL shared libraries ii procps 1:3.2.7-11 /proc file system utilities ii ucf 3.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv nagios-plugins-basic recommends no packages. Versions of packages nagios-plugins-basic suggests: ii nagios3 3.0.6-4~lenny2 A host/service/network monitoring -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
