Hari Sekhon schrieb: > Matthias Kellermann wrote: >> critical update: fixes a security hole (nagios state: critical) >> non-critical update: just a new version with new features etc. (nagios >> state: warning) >> >> Thanks for your help and if you need any help for this plugin don't >> hesitate to ask me. > Ok thanks. > > Just out of curiosity, why would you want to know if there are new > version of a package available? There may be so many packages on a > server, that there is always some update. Do you intend to continuously > update the system for things which have no benefit?
It's kinda interesting to know which packages are new. > eg. on a relatively light server with 174 packages, the odds of a newer > version of some small irrelevent program having gotten an update for > some feature you don't even know about is quite high I think. > > Perhaps that kind of thing is better left for a switch option as I think > most people really wouldn't want to be bothered about that. You are right - a switch would be the best thing. For most people only the security flaws are interesting. > Do you, for example, update all packages on your gentoo servers all the > time? I would think that this would destabilize your server by > constantly changing things...? At the moment I don't have that much Gentoo machines out there. Most are running FreeBSD oder Debian, there aren't lots of updates. > What do you think? I think the switch is the best solution to get everyone happy :) Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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