[Nagiosplug-help] stale NFS handles detection

[Andreas Ericsson]

Katherine Sauceda wrote:
> An ls of the mount point at the level of the NFS directory itself produces the
> stale mount error. I was thinking to write a script to check for it that way.
> 

Something like this would do the trick:

---%<---%<---
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <errno.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    struct stat st;
    if (stat(path_on_nfs, &st) < 0 && errno == ESTALE) {
        printf("CRITICAL: %s resides on a stale mount-point\n", path_on_nfs);
        return 2;
    }

    printf("OK: NFS is happily serving %s\n", path_on_nfs);
    return 0;
}

---%<---%<---

Fixing up the code so it's usable with Nagios is left as an exercise
to the reader.

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