Current state of Nagios packages June 10, 2007
Posted by Tobias Scherbaum in : Gentoo , add a commentIt’s now nearly two months after Jokey’s mail to the dev-Mailinglist asking for Nagios maintainers and one month after I took the challenge of maintaining them, but first of all fixing some bugs which were added to a tracker - as a larger number of them got stuck in Gentoos Bugzilla.
Things I fixed include
- a valid home-directory for the nagios-User (for example if you want to add a custom my.cnf)
- setuid check_icmp Plugin (it won’t work otherwise)
- migration of nagios-core to econf and dropping (deprecated) gnuconfig
- check not only for jpeg but also png support when installing the web-frontend
- fixed pre-stripped binaries in nagios-core
plus version bumps of nagios, nagios-core and nagios-nrpe. I also added nagios-plugins-1.4.8 and 1.4.9, of which 1.4.8(-r1) is about to be stabled soonish (ppc64 were quite fast, thanks Markus!). For a detailed list of things which were fixed consult the ChangeLogs.
The Tracker-Bug nowadays mainly consists of minor bugs, of which 3 are requests for new packages (ndoutils, nagios_grapher, nagvis) and one bug covers a Nagios guide, which I’ll look at together while writing a nice example config - Debian already has a nice one ;)
One thing I came across while fixing some Nagios bugs was the installation layout Gentoo is using. While I really like it, it’ll need to be changed somewhen in the future to easily use Nagios with Apache and SuEXEC enabled. This requires the Nagios CGI’s to be installed inside of /var/www instead of /usr/nagios/sbin. To make this change as smooth as possible I tend to make this change together with moving to Nagios 3 which has seen it’s 4th Alpha-Release in May. If you have other suggestions how to solve this problem w/ SuEXEC feel welcome to share them with me :)
