Package: hobbit-plugins Version: 20141006 Severity: important Control: affects -1 + xymon Control: found -1 20170219 Control: found -1 20190129
The commit https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xymon/commit/3a46f42062b22ba31bfe9b629fad9173caa1ed1f in xymon changed the path for server-side tasks and plugins from /etc/xymon/xymonlaunch.d/ to /etc/xymon/tasks.d/, but hobbit-plugins never followed that change. Result: Since xymon/4.3.17-3 (in which this commit is included) and hence since Debian 8 Jessie (which initially shipped with xymon/4.3.17-6) none of the server-side plugins shipped with hobbit-plugins was started if it was configured to be started. (By default none of the server-side plugins is configured to be started.) Acoording to upload dates, 20141006 should have been the first hobbit-plugins version which should have had this fix. (I partially have to blame myself, because I didn't manage to upgrade one my production monitoring server from Debian 7 Wheezy to Debian 8 Jessie or later for quite a while. Unfortunately that was the only server where I needed server-side plugins, mostly conn6, until very recently when I discovered this issue on a freshly setup Xymon server where I needed the conn6 plugin, too.) Fixing this properly involves quite some effort with moving conffiles around and possibly dealing with a very easy workaround: # rmdir /etc/xymon/tasks.d # ln -vis xymonlaunch.d /etc/xymon/tasks.d # service xymon restart So IMHO fixing this issue should cope with the following obvious workarounds: * /etc/xymon/tasks.d is a symlink to xymonlaunch.d, as suggested above. (the easy solution) * /etc/xymon/xymonlaunch.d has been renamed to tasks.d and /etc/xymon/xymonlaunch.d is a symlink to tasks.d. (the more correct solution) I don't think we should try fix this kind of breakage for Buster anymore as this looks non-trivial to handle properly, and a very easy manual fix is available for those few who need server-side plugins.
