[Nagiosplug-devel] Re: netsaint-plugins-1.2.9-4.rpm dependancy breaks on RH 7.2

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Terje Bless wrote:

> Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org> wrote:
> 
> >Plugin development in nagiosplug is starting to happen offline.
> 
> Why offline?
> 
A lot of wading through code... its hard to discuss wading thru code ;)

> 
> I assume Red Hat 7.2 is a pretty big chunk of the installed base out there.
> Making sure there is something usable until Nagios 1.0 comes out should be
> a good investment.
> 
> Especially since this problem causes check_http to report a false negative!
> It shows your web site as up, and doesn't page anyone, while your customers
> are meeting a "500 Internal Server Error" or somesuch. That's a very very
> bad failure mode!
> 

perhaps - having the rpm being dependent on openssl0.9.6a and flag a 
warning during install would be better. 


> Cool! I'm looking forward to it. With any kind of luck I should be able to
> contribute some code towards the Perl plugins.

Always welcome.

-sg