Since I updated the plugins to 1.4, I only have trouble! I get all the time warnings. For example: ***** Nagios ***** Notification Type: PROBLEM Service: Total Processes Host: xxxx Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx State: WARNING Date/Time: Sat Feb 19 15:57:03 CET 2005 Additional Info: System call sent warnings to stderr While starting manualy the check-process and using the -vv option I saw that the parameters for ps are the reason for the error: # /usr/nagios/libexec/check_procs -w 150 -c 200 -vv CMD: /bin/ps -axwo 'stat uid ppid vsz rss pcpu comm args' STDERR: Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html System call sent warnings to stderr PROCS WARNING: 138 processes # Hmm... looks like the file configure.in needs patching. I tried to modify a existing line to suit my needs, but failed (mainly because egrep once matches the line and once not. I don't know what is wrong with me or egrep. The same expression once works and once not. With same output! Anyway... AWK works perfectly in that case.). After I tried to do the same with AWK I was successfull. This is the patch I would like to include in the 1.4 ebuild: diff -Naur nagios-plugins-1.4.org/configure.in nagios-plugins-1.4/configure.in --- nagios-plugins-1.4.org/configure.in 2005-02-04 01:44:27.000000000 +0100 +++ nagios-plugins-1.4/configure.in 2005-02-19 17:44:48.349115040 +0100 @@ -586,10 +586,24 @@ AC_PATH_PROG(PATH_TO_PS,ps) AC_MSG_CHECKING(for ps syntax) +dnl For Gentoo to avoid "bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'" message +dnl STAT COMMAND VSZ RSS USER UID PPID COMMAND +if ps awxo 'stat comm vsz rss user uid ppid args' 2>&1 | head --lines=1 | \ + tr [a-z] [A-Z] | awk '{if ($1=="STAT" && ($2=="COMMAND" || \ + $2=="UCOMMAND") && $3=="VSZ" && $4=="RSS" && $5=="USER" \ + && $6=="UID" && $7=="PPID" && $8=="COMMAND") print "OK"}' | \ + grep -q "^OK$" +then + ac_cv_ps_varlist="[procstat,&procuid,&procppid,&procvsz,&procrss,&procpcpu,procprog,&pos]" + ac_cv_ps_command="$PATH_TO_PS axwo 'stat uid ppid vsz rss pcpu comm args'" + ac_cv_ps_format="%s %d %d %d %d %f %s %n" + ac_cv_ps_cols=8 + AC_MSG_RESULT([$ac_cv_ps_command]) + dnl For OpenBSD 3.2 & 3.3. Must come before ps -weo dnl Should also work for FreeBSD 5.2.1 and 5.3 dnl STAT UCOMM VSZ RSS USER PPID COMMAND -if ps -axwo 'stat comm vsz rss user uid ppid args' 2>/dev/null | \ +elif ps -axwo 'stat comm vsz rss user uid ppid args' 2>/dev/null | \ egrep -i ["^ *STAT +[UCOMAND]+ +VSZ +RSS +USER +UID +PPID +COMMAND"] > /dev/null then ac_cv_ps_varlist="[procstat,&procuid,&procppid,&procvsz,&procrss,&procpcpu,procprog,&pos]" While doing my changes on a copy of the original nagios-plugins-1.4.ebuild, I realized that serval commands in configure.in are not in the ebuild as a dependency. I think the ebuild needs at least the following dependencies: sys-apps/grep sys-apps/coreutils sys-apps/procps If using the patch above, then sys-apps/gawk would as well be needed for the patch to work. cheers SteveB Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (hardened/x86, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.11-rc4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-rc4 i686 AMD Athlon (TM) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 10:28:14)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -Os -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/postfix /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control /var/spool/vacation" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/mail/dspam /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -Os -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache distcc distlocks sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/" MAKEOPTS="-j13" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/gentoo.overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X509 acl acpi apache2 autofs berkdb crypt curl dlloader erandom fam fastcgi fla freetds gd gdbm geoip gif gmp hardened icc icc-pgo imagemagick imap innodb j2ee java javacomm javamail jboss jce jikes jms jmx jpeg jta kerberos krb4 large-domain lcms ldap libwww lzw lzw-tiff maildir mbox mcal mmx mpeg mysql nagios-dns nagios-game nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh ncurses neural nls nptl oav odbc pam pam-mysql pdflib pear-db perl php pic pie png python readline ruby samba sasl skey snmp spell sqlite sse ssl symlink tcpd tiff truetype vda vhosts wmf x86 xml xml2 yaz zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
For other people having trouble, -vv seems to work fine with version 1.3.1-r1. Also, I'm not sure if the dependencies you suggest are necessary, since they are already in `/usr/portage/profiles/base/packages`.
Comment #1: I know that the <1.4 release works. The patch I submitted allows you to use the 1.4 version of the plugins. Anyway... I think that this problem is probably not a show stopper for the plugins.
Created attachment 51611 [details, diff] nagios-plugins-1.4.ebuild.diff A much simpler fix to the ebuild, just a sed line... I got the idea from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.plugins.devel/2338 Worked for me, please tell if it works for you.
Vanquirius: I did not run your patch. But the one line sed command is okay, from my point of view. When I was doing my patch, I was thinking about making a generic approach because if it works okay, then we can submit it to the nagios creator. Your patch would break the portability of the nagios-plugins on other platforms. Anyway... for the Gentoo setup your approach is shure okay.
Thanks Marcelo - patch added.
