After wondering why all of the processes I'm checking with check_procs were counting an extra, I discovered the bug with /bin/dash under Debian [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=626913]
As a workaround (because I'm not interested in changing the default shell for the entire server), I called /bin/bash when defining my commands in nrpe.cfg. Now they're going haywire in a different way. For instance: command[check_pdns_config_pub]=/bin/bash -c /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w 1:1 -c 1:1 -a "pdns_server --config-name=public" But now Nagios reports: "PROCS OK: 271 processes" I am baffled. Every process I am checking now reports 271, which is how many total processes are running. Prior to explicitly defining the shell in the command, it was reporting correctly but adding one process to the count, so I shouldn't have broken it too badly here. Any suggestions on a better workaround? Thanks! C O N V I V A Kimberly McKinnis | Systems Engineer, Service Delivery | k...@conviva.com | Mobile: 724.612.2716 | 2 WATERS PARK DRIVE | SUITE 150 | SAN MATEO | CA | 94403 | www.conviva.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ 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