Last night here at BSP I released nagios-plugins (1.4.14-1), which has a couple of fixes and enhancements. For more information, see the changelog.
The main change may, that with this version, the package should be installable on non-linux archs, where iputils-ping is not available. The downside of using inetutils-ping is, that its behavior is different from iputils-ping. As result of this, check_ping will timeout much often, even if there isn’t any problem and you will have false positives. As suggested long ago, at least on this archs, you should consider to replace the use of check_ping with check_icmp.
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We ordered a couple of the new HP DL160 G6, cause they can be equipped with a lot of RAM. Unfortunately it’s always the same with HP and the bandnew ProLiant 100 series … the driver for the NICs is missing/too old in the latest stable debian release. The DL160 G6 is shipped with a Intel 82576 GBit NIC, which isn’t recognized by Lenny, see also #522922.
I installed the system with another NIC installed (not really, but this is a way it works :) and wanted to get free the PCI-X slot again. So I did backport dkms and downloaded the latest igb driver. A short look into /usr/share/doc/dkms/HOWTO.Debian did advice me the way to create the DKMS driver package. Just after a couple of minutes I did roll out the igb-dkms_2.0.6_all.deb to the target maschine(s).
On the target systems I just installed dkms, the DKMS package and appropriate linux-headers and … sim, salabim … there was the interfaces. :)
Today I uploaded a new nagios-plugins package to unstable. At first I thought I will wait for the next upstream release, but after the announcement to release soon, the months passed by. While we skipped the last stable release due the lenny freeze, there are a couple of bugs fixed in the latest svn snapshot and within the package itself:
[...]
* new upstream
– check_http doesn’t enforce port (Closes: #494835)
– check_http –onredirect=sticky follows using the same IP address
(Closes: #502529)
– Fixed buffer overflow in check_ntp/check_ntp_peer (Closes: #528686)
– Fixed check_mrtg returning UNKNOWN instead of OK (Closes: #335871)
– Fixed check_by_ssh interpretation of quotes in -C parameter
(Closes: #425312)
– Fixed coredump from check_nt when drive not found (Closes: #521097)
– Removed -n option in check_smtp’s help and usage output (Closes: #525307)
– Fixed check_icmp –help output for warn and critical thresholds
(Closes: #530553)
– Fix potential buffer overflow in check_snmp – enforce MAX_OIDS limit
(Closes: #460405)
[...]
* add trailing $ to check_httpname, thanks Daniel Pocock (Closes: #524629)
* add informations into README.Debian how to use plugins (Closes: #525168)
* add check_nscp which uses the default port of NSClient++ (Closes: #528262)
[...]
So I thought it would be comfortable for the users to upload the svn snapshot instead to wait longer for a stable upstream release and leave the bugs unfixed or incorporate the bugfixes into latest stable release, which have to be sorted out again with the next stable release.
If there are no show stoppers, a backport will appear hopefully short before debconf at backports.org.
While we are at it, yes I’m at debconf too from 23th to 31th. Hopefully see you there.
postfwd 1.10pre7c-1 has been accepted and did hit experimental yesterday.
If you using policyd-weight you might want to give it a try, since its active development stoped. If you are annoyed by too much spam, it maybe a good idea as well.
Please have a look on postfwd.cf, there is no default config provided, since the configuration depends heavily on your environment. But maybe you have a look at /usr/share/doc/postfwd/examples, there is what you expect.
If you have any comments, send a mail to the maintainer or if there are bugs I didn’t spotted yet, please fill one!
In case I don’t respond quit fast, maybe I’m in the delivery room or anywhere else in the hospital or something like that, so please give me some extra time.
In case there are no big issues, I plan to upload the package to unstable in a reasonable time.
