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| author | Holger Weiss <holger@zedat.fu-berlin.de> | 2014-10-15 13:56:13 +0200 | 
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| committer | Holger Weiss <holger@zedat.fu-berlin.de> | 2014-10-15 13:56:13 +0200 | 
| commit | aafc353f20116cb0df13da110ad642a944a120c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c015b092587857e215111cb443fceb8e754989e | |
| parent | d530bf2f5ec0363f806c9e1672bfb002c91e55af (diff) | |
| download | monitoring-plugins-aafc353.tar.gz | |
FAQ: Remove outdated (RPM/DEB-related) questions
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| @@ -29,42 +29,6 @@ A: At a minimum, the output from 'uname -a' and the version string | |||
| 29 | problem and any solution/patch. | 29 | problem and any solution/patch. | 
| 30 | 30 | ||
| 31 | 31 | ||
| 32 | Q: I'm using Redhat Linux (or some other RPM-based distribution). | ||
| 33 | Which packages should I install? | ||
| 34 | |||
| 35 | A: The package monitoring-plugins-<version>.<arch>.rpm contains only | ||
| 36 | those plugins that should work on any POSIX compliant system. In | ||
| 37 | other words, you should be able to install this package on your | ||
| 38 | system, no matter what else is or in not installed. | ||
| 39 | |||
| 40 | However, most of us have more complex systems than barebones | ||
| 41 | POSIX. We tried creating a variety of separate packages so | ||
| 42 | each dependency could be installed cleanly, but many people | ||
| 43 | found that this resulted in too many packages. So in the end, | ||
| 44 | all the non-POSIX plugins were folded into one RPM | ||
| 45 | (monitoring-plugins-<version>.<arch>.rpm). Most people will need to | ||
| 46 | use RPM's '--nodeps' option to install this package. | ||
| 47 | |||
| 48 | |||
| 49 | Q: My system uses the .deb package format. What packages should I | ||
| 50 | install? | ||
| 51 | |||
| 52 | A: We strive for cooperation between all packagers and developers. | ||
| 53 | The answers for .deb are the same as for RPM, after changing the | ||
| 54 | package name suffixes accordingly. | ||
| 55 | |||
| 56 | |||
| 57 | Q: I prefer to build my own RPMs. Do I need to install all of the | ||
| 58 | various dependencies? | ||
| 59 | |||
| 60 | A: Beginning with the 1.2.9-1 release, you may run | ||
| 61 | |||
| 62 | rpm --define 'custom 1' -ta monitoring-plugins-<release>.tar.gz | ||
| 63 | |||
| 64 | In prior releases, you must unpack the tarball and build the | ||
| 65 | RPM using monitoring-custom.spec with 'rpm -ba'. | ||
| 66 | |||
| 67 | |||
| 68 | Q: I get an error like | 32 | Q: I get an error like | 
| 69 | 33 | ||
| 70 | Warning: Return code of 127 for check of service 'PING' on host 'anyhost' was out of bounds. | 34 | Warning: Return code of 127 for check of service 'PING' on host 'anyhost' was out of bounds. | 
