How to debug plugin getting into UNKNOWN state

[Paul L. Allen]

Markus Baertschi writes: 

> I found the problem by adding some debugging and logging code to
> the plugin (writing to a separate file).

That's always a useful technique with perl. 

> The main problem was that the running nagios and the user nagios
> did not have the same environment (.profile is not executed when
> starting nagios) and this fooled me.

Another gotch, if you use utils.pm (as you should), is that it wipes
your environment clean so you can't rely on the normal PATH being
there. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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