Confirmed there are still some broken links in the monitoring-plugins from impish:
triage-impish+21.10:~/pkg/MonitoringPlugins/monitoring-plugins-gu/plugins$ egrep -sr https?:// * | grep -v www.gnu.org | grep -v example.com | grep -v 192.168. check_curl.c:* http://curl.haxx.se check_curl.c: * http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318380/en-us */ check_dbi.c: printf (" %s\n", _("driver. See its documentation at http://libdbi-drivers.sourceforge.net/";)); check_dns.c: /* https://www.cryptobells.com/verifying-ips-in-a-subnet-in-php/ */ check_dns.c: /* http://computer-programming-forum.com/47-c-language/1376ffb92a12c471.htm */ check_game.c: printf (" %s\n", _("http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html before you can use this plugin.")); check_http.c: /* @20100414, public[at]frank4dd.com, http://www.frank4dd.com/howto */ check_ide_smart.c: printf (_("This plugin checks a local hard drive with the (Linux specific) SMART interface [http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/index.php].";)); check_mrtg.c: printf (" %s\n", "http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html";); check_mrtgtraf.c: printf (" %s\n", " http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html";); check_nt.c:* (http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/) check_nt.c: printf (" %s\n", "(http://nsclient.ready2run.nl)."); check_nwstat.c: printf (" %s\n", _(" (available from http://www.engr.wisc.edu/~drews/mrtg/)")); check_overcr.c: printf ("%s\n", _("Over-CR can be downloaded from http://www.molitor.org/overcr";)); check_ping.c: printf ("%s\n", _("the contrib area of the downloads section at http://www.nagios.org/";)); check_snmp.c: printf ("%s\n", _("http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net before you can use this plugin.")); check_tcp.c: SEND = "<stream:stream to=\'host\' xmlns=\'jabber:client\' xmlns:stream=\'http://etherx.jabber.org/streams\'>\n"; check_ups.c: printf (" %s\n", _("http://www.networkupstools.org";)); picohttpparser/picohttpparser.c: * http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2006/mfsa2006-33.html */ t/check_http.t: $res = NPTest->testCmd( "./$plugin -I $host_tcp_proxy -p $port_tcp_proxy -u http://$host_tcp_http -e 200,301,302"); tests/check_snmp.t:Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport tests/check_snmp.t:Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport tests/check_snmp_agent.pl:Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport utils.h: https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/extra-opts.html\n\ utils.h: https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html#THRESHOLDFORMAT\n\ --- 1. https://www.cryptobells.com/verifying-ips-in-a-subnet-in-php/ - Link works, but there's no content... 2. http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html - Resolves to generic tax software review article unrelated to qstat. - User-visible string 3. http://www.frank4dd.com/howto - 404 & bad cert 4. http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/mrtg.html - Cannot connect to server - User-visible string 5. http://nsclient.ready2run.nl - Domain name up for sale - User-visible string 6. http://www.engr.wisc.edu/~drews/mrtg/ - 404 - User-visible string 7. http://etherx.jabber.org/streams - 404 - Used in a testCmd() call If better links aren't known, then at least it would make sense to move the bad links out of user-visible strings into internal code comments (they may have some value as historical reference). And I agree with Nish that this is probably more something for upstream than for us to carry as a packaging patch. ** Changed in: monitoring-plugins (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1679161 Title: broken links within the monitoring-plugins documentation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/monitoring-plugins/+bug/1679161/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
