Package: nagios3-core Version: 3.4.1-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
We are affected by the following frustrating bug that has been recorded upstream in: http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=375 As stated in the upstream bug notes, the bug is fixed by changing one comparison operator, corrected in r2668 in their SVN repo: http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/svn/2668/ or commit b795b3 in their git repo: http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/nagioscore/ci/b795b375b6e5293fd2266db54a39234cee89d8f6/ This fix has been released in 3.5.1 of nagios core: http://www.nagios.org/projects/nagioscore/history/core-3x and according to here, http://sources.debian.net/src/nagios3/3.4.1-5/base/checks.c it is not already in the backported 3.4.1-5 version of nagios in Debian. For us, the bug is triggered because we frequently reload the nagios daemon for configuration updates via puppet, and this resets the passive service freshness threshold to start from the time nagios was last restarted, instead of from the time the service was last checked. As we reload nagios so frequently and have a number of passive services with long freshness thresholds, it means that most these services can never reach their freshness expiration, and so problems are being missed. We will be changing our servers to not reload nagios as frequently in the hope that we don't trigger this bug as frequently as we do now, but since it is such a simple fix, and clearly a bug (as the logic of the code is clearly wrong without this change), I wondered whether this change could possibly be backported to the 3.4.X line in wheezy so that we don't have to wait for a new version of nagios to benefit? Kind regards, Matt Raso-Barnett -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages nagios3-core depends on: ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libperl5.14 5.14.2-21+deb7u1 ii nagios3-common 3.4.1-3 ii perl 5.14.2-21+deb7u1 nagios3-core recommends no packages. Versions of packages nagios3-core suggests: ii nagios-nrpe-plugin 2.13-3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org