Re: nagios vs w/uptime

From: Ian Lepore <ian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:32:44 -0700
On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 22:24 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote:
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> > On 10 Feb 2015, at 22:17, Michael Gmelin <grembo_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
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> > 
> > 
> >> On 10 Feb 2015, at 21:13, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel_at_xcllnt.net> wrote:
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> >> [Moving to current_at_]
> >> 
> >>> On Feb 10, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Peter Wemm <peter_at_wemm.org> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Surprises:
> >>> * nagios doesn't like w / uptime anymore. libxo perhaps?
> >> 
> >> Seems most likely, although I havenąt seen any differences in output
> >> in my (admittedly limited) testing.
> >> 
> >> In what way does Nagios not like w/uptime?
> >> Any concrete errors, output or misbehavior?
> >> Ideally: can you reproduce the problem?
> > 
> > 
> > Just compared 10.1 to current, unmodified output looks the same, but pipelines don't work properly:
> > 
> > 10.1:
> > # uptime | wc
> > 1 12 68
> > 
> > Current:
> > # uptime | wc
> > 0 0 0
> > 
> > # uptime | cat
> > # uptime
> > 10:16PM  up 9 mins...
> > 
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> Adding xo_finish() to w.c line 268 just right before exit(0); fixes that issue (I don't know libxo well enough to say if this is the proper fix or just a workaround, but it seems logical to me).
> 

I wonder if that implies that any non-normal exit from a program that
has been xo'd will result in the loss of output that would not have been
lost before the xo changes?  That could lead to all kinds of subtle
failures of existing scripts and apps.

-- Ian
Received on Tue Feb 10 2015 - 20:32:49 UTC

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