Plugin exit status codes

[Deborah Martin]

Hi, 
I'm using Nagios 2.0b4 on Suse 9.2 

I have some plugins which do various database checks such as disk usage. In
the plugin, I want to define
the exit codes depending on the status of the check. I noticed that there is
an exit status of 
STATE_DEPENDENT (defined in utils.sh which comes with the nagios plugins
package) 

When should this exit status be used. I'm guessing it should be when a
service check is a dependency and its
master service has failed and therefore the dependency should exit with this
status. Am I correct ? The documentation
lists the other exit state codes (0,1,2,3) but doesn't mention 4. I've
checked 2.0b6 docs as well.

BTW - When i use the STATE_DEPENDENT exit code for a dependency service
check I get the error 
	'Return code of 4 is out of bounds' 

I have the dependency service check defined in dependencies.cfg 

Any pointers / help would be very appreciated. 

thanks,
deborah 

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