Running Nagios 1.2 on RH EL3 - FIXED!

[Greg Vickers]

Really? I didn't think that $SERVICESTATEID:hostname:servicename$ macros 
were available in Nagios 1.x???

In my situation I am using check_cluster, not check_cluster2. Passing 
that long a line to check_cluster was causing the segfault.

Greg

Dan Stromberg wrote:
> UCI/NACS/DCS is using the check_cluster2 with nagios 1.2 without
> segfaults.
> 
> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 15:05 +1000, Greg Vickers wrote:
> 
>>Ahhahaha. AHHAHAAHAHA. Cue user error, aka POBKAC...
>>
>>After compiling with --enable-DEBUG(0,1,2) and attaching gdb to this new 
>>executable I find:
>>(gdb) bt
>>#0  0x007366d6 in strncpy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
>>#1  0x08059906 in get_raw_command_line (
>>     cmd=0x9591300 
>>"check_service_cluster!CA-R203b!31!32!$SERVICESTATEID:CA-R203b-PC01:Lab 
>>PC available$,$SERVICESTATEID:CA-R203b-PC02:Lab PC 
>>available$,$SERVICESTATEID:CA-R203b-PC03:Lab PC 
>>available$,$SERVICESTATEID:CA-"..., raw_command=0x2d41433a <Address 
>>0x2d41433a out of bounds>, buffer_length=858796626) at utils.c:1277
>>
>>Gee, that looks like a cluster check service command for Nagios 2.0... 
>>and I'm running a Nagios executable 1.2... gosh could be a buffer 
>>overflow! <slaps_self_with_cod>
>>
>>I had converted all my config files to 2.0 and then regressed them to 
>>1.2 (a lot of host names had been updated) and missed the cluster check 
>>services... duh.
>>
>>Sorry for the hundreds of emails and thanks for the replies and suggestions!
>>
>>Greg
>>
>>C. Bensend wrote:
>>
>>>>I've seen the same behavior using binaries compiled from source and from
>>>>rpm packages.
>>>>
>>>>I've removed the use of any plugins (as well as check_nagios in cgi.cfg)
>>>>and Nagios still fails at the same point.
>>>
>>>
>>>I haven't followed every single email in this thread, so apologies if
>>>this has already been asked...
>>>
>>>There aren't any resource limits on the account you're running Nagios
>>>as that might be kicking in, are there?  Open files?  Memory limits?
>>>Disk quotas?  What groups is the nagios user in?  What's the output
>>>of 'ulimit -a'?
>>>
>>>No selinux stuff enabled?
>>>
>>>Benny
>>>
>>>
>>

-- 
Greg Vickers
Lab Monitor Project Manager
Teaching and Learning Support Services
Information Technology Services
Queensland University of Technology

email: g.vickers at qut.edu.au
phone: (07) 3864 8276
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