<p><a href="https://github.com/orlitzky" class="user-mention">@orlitzky</a> i understand the problem you had, in my distro it can be fixed with marking procps 3.3.10 to conflict with monitoring-plugins < 2.1.1-2, where monitoring-plugins == 2.1.1-2 is the "new" version that uses paths from 3.3.10, so users are forced to upgrade both or neither.</p>

<p>as for looking up programs from <code>PATH</code> security concern, there already exists <code>--with-trusted-path=PATH</code> configure option, so it should be "secure" to search them from there runtime. and i think it would also simplify whole <code>configure.ac</code> and probably cruft needed to add support for new program for use of plugin.</p>

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