Hijacking a message thread to start a new one is a poor way of getting helpful answers. Please don't do that again.
Philip Brown wrote: > Hmm.. > > another snag I hit upgrading from plugins version 1.3.1, to 1.4.13. > > previously, it was perfectly valid to use > > check_udp -H hostname -p #### > > and it worked. > > but now, you have to specify BOTH a 'send' string, and an 'expect' string. > > The help/error message is not entirely clear: > > With UDP checks, a send/expect string must be specified. > > It would be nicer if it more accurately said, > > With UDP checks, both a send AND an expect string must be specified. > > > I was wondering why it was not sufficient to call it with -s. I did not > realize it required -e as well. > Also: i didnt really know what to 'expect"... but it turns out that > > check_udp -H host -p 2342 -s 'xyz' -e '' > > works ok. > > Too bad that trick does not seem to work for checking if a kerb5 kdc port is > up and valid. > > I know there is a "check_kdc" perl script, but it requires a couple of > external modules. I prefer things that are self-contained, or compiled. > -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null