[Nagiosplug-devel] Added system infos: check_smtp: Syntax bug?

[Saul, Markus]

 Sorry that I forgot to add system infos:
OS: Debian Sarge with testing packages
ii  nagios-plugins                               1.4.3-1                                      Plugins for the nagios network monitoring and management system
ii  nagios-plugins-basic                         1.4.3-1                                      Plugins for the nagios network monitoring and management system
ii  nagios-plugins-standard                      1.4.3-1                                      Plugins for the nagios network monitoring and management system

Kernel: 2.6.15-1-686

Nagios version: 
i  nagios2                                      2.4-1                                        A host/service/network monitoring and management system
ii  nagios2-common                               2.4-1                                        support files for nagios2
ii  nagios2-doc                                  2.4-1                                        documentation for nagios2

check_smtp version:

check_smtp (nagios-plugins 1.4.3) 1.50
Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Ethan Galstad <nagios at nagios.org>
Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Nagios Plugin Development Team
        <nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>



> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Saul, Markus 
> Gesendet: Montag, 28. August 2006 17:02
> An: 'nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Betreff: check_smtp: Syntax bug?
> 
> Hello dear developers,
> today I faced a problem with the check_smtp plugin. I noticed 
> that although I had given a wrong port number for a mail 
> server the check returned an OK state and a normal response 
> time. So I tried some things like placing characters in the 
> command definition as the argument to the check command and 
> it still said it was being ok.
> Together with a colleague he discovered that there was a 
> difference between the normally defined check_smtp command 
> the custom defined check_command we used, namely "check_smtp_port".
> The difference was:
> 
> check_smtp -H $HOSTADDRESS$
> check_smtp_port $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $ARG1$
> 
> I had overseen the missing "-H".
> 
> So the command still worked although it was called like this: 
> check_smtp mailserver -p 9999 assuming the default port 25 
> with an result in the likes of 
> SMTP OK - 0.006 sec. response time|time=0.006449s;;;0.000000
> 
> I think that this might be a bug of the plugin itself, 
> because it should complain about my syntax, if I forget the 
> -H, as problems as mine above can arise from ignoring such 
> user mistakes and just assuming the default value of port 25.
> This is also hard to backtrack, so it would be good if there 
> was some additional syntax check.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
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> 	Markus Saul
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