NIS check?

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:02:43PM -0700, Nelson, Ben wrote:
> The problem I see is that the current revision of check_rpc (1.3.0-beta2) is
> dependant on specific output of rpcinfo.  If the actual output of rpcinfo
> doesn't match any of the scripts known, hard-coded output strings, then the
> default state is maintained.  Since the default state is 'OK', you will
> always get an 'OK' if the script can't parse the output of rpcinfo. 

> Doesn't
> seem like totally desireable behavior to me.
>

Much more desireable than 'CRITICAL': spurious alerts bring availability 
monitors __quickly__ undone.

Suggest you change the default state to 'UNKNOWN'.
 
> --Ben 

BTW, welcome to the world of heterogenous systems. Making code portable 
is at least as hard as making it in the first place.

Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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