Nag 1.0 does _not_ work with embedded Perl and Perl 5.8.0 (earlier Perls fine).

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am writing to confirm that the embedded Perl support of
Nagios/Netsaint is broken with Perl 5.8.0.

The Nag/Netsaint binary will not start but SEGVs immediately if Nag is
configured and built with the embedded Perl interpreter and Perl 5.8.0.

My initial investigations show the cause to be in perl_call_argv()
[call_argv() in 5.8.0]. Whether this is a problem with the embedding in
Nag/Netsaint or it's a problem in Perl 5.8.0 is unknown.

This doesn't appear to be a known or trivial problem and will require
investigating.

In the meantime, don't embed Perl 5.8.0 in Nag/Netsaint - either run
without embedded Perl support or embed an older Perl. Unless you have a
new system (eg RH 8.0) there is no - plugin - reason for using 5.8.0.

Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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