[Nagiosplug-help] check_tcp bug in nagios v1.4.11

Matthias Eble PsychoTrahe at gmx.de
Thu Oct 23 22:50:48 CEST 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 13:00 -0400, Fontanilla, John (Gexpro, consultant)
wrote:
> We use check_tcp v.1.4.11 and it appears to still have a bug...

# check_tcp -H 127.0.0.1 -p 4444; echo $?
Connection refused
2

Why should this be a bug? The plugin returns critical, it simply doesn't
print the status to stdout. The statustext in the output can be
considered as noise anyway, since , nagios has appropriate macros, if
you want a severity string in your notifications, etc.

Matthias






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