Re: Ports Bug (Nagios)

On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 10:26:01 -0700
Adam <freebsd_at_mygeotivity.com> wrote:

> I found a bug in the /ports/net/naios port. More correctly, I think it 
> would be in /ports/net/nagios-plugins.
> 
> I had Postgres 7.2 installed on my system. I did this manually from source. 
> It seems that when you choose to have postgres support for nagios, it 
> doesn't check to see if the library exists, but instead looks to see if the 
> port was installed. This resulted in my install getting clobbered, 
> directory permissions getting reassigned and my database going down.
> 
> 
> TTYL
> 
> Adam
> 
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%cd /usr/ports/net/nagios
%env WITH_POSTGRES="yes" make -V PKGNAME -V LIB_DEPENDS -V BUILD_DEPENDS -V RUN_DEPENDS
nagios-1.0_1
gd.2:/usr/ports/graphics/gd gnugetopt.1:/usr/ports/devel/libgnugetopt pq.3:/usr/ports/databases/postgresql7

/usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_nagios:/usr/ports/net/nagios-plugins
%cd /usr/ports/net/nagios-plugins
%env WITH_POSTGRES="yes" make -V PKGNAME -V LIB_DEPENDS -V BUILD_DEPENDS -V RUN_DEPENDS
nagios-plugins-1.3.0

gmake:/usr/ports/devel/gmake /usr/local/libexec/automake14/automake:/usr/ports/devel/automake14 /usr/local/libexec/autoconf213/autoconf:/usr/ports/devel/autoconf213



So, nagios is referencing the library with the name pq.3.

If you are confident what you have is compatible with what nagios wants,
you could have told a "lie" that it is pq.3, wherever you installed it.


horio shoichi