check_ftp gives a critical w/ shorter than warning

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, C. Bensend wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:29:51PM -0700, Nicholas Bernstein wrote:
> > I get critical errors if it takes longer than 10 seconds to check. This
> > doesn't make sense to me. I've got the timeout at forty - and the
> > warning is at 15 - I'm confused. Giving an error at ten seconds doesn't
> > make any sense to me. If anyone can explain it to me, I would be much
> > appreciative. 
> 
> The default timeout for plugins is 10 seconds, defined by common.h:
> 
> #define DEFAULT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT  10      /* timeout after 10 seconds */
> 
> You can either change that, then recompile whichever plugin is giving
> you problems, or recompile all of the plugins to inherit the new
> default timeout value.
> 

The -t option for the plugin overrides this options

Also in nagios.cfg set the TIMEOUT VALUES to be lerge enough to the cover 
the expected duration for the longest plugins.


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-sg



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