check_hpjd plugin in Plugins 1.4

[Andreas Ericsson]

Edward MacGillivray wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just downloaded and upgraded to the nagios-plugins-1.4 and I've found that 
> the checks that us the check_hpjd plugin are failing with the following 
> output:
> 
> Unknown output option passed to -O: Q. : Timeout from host <hostname>
> 

check_hpjd (along with many other output parsing programs) is a cesspool 
of sloppy code. It assumes the program timed out if it prints anything 
to stderr (or if it doesn't print anything to stdout), which explains 
why you see the wildly inaccurate and somewhat incoherent message you 
see above.

> This both shows up in the web status for the hosts and is the result of 
> running the command from the command line as root.  I had made a copy of the 
> 1.4.0alpha2 plugins that I was using previously and so after restoring this 
> plugin its not complaining any longer.

It seems then that a regression fix is in order.

>  I also searched the list archive for 
> hpjd and only found one entry in the last year.  Does anyone know what this 
> error is about?  I don't see and didn't use any -O option, so was this 
> compiled into the plugin?  The command I'm running looks like:
> 
> $USER1$/check_hpjd -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C public
> 
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
> mac
> 

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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