[Nagiosplug-devel] nagios ircd plugin fix

[Blaz Zupan]

I'm not subscribed to this list, so this mail will hopefully get through.

I'm the maintainer of the FreeBSD port of nagios-plugins. I've received the
following contribution and added it to the FreeBSD port of nagios plugins. I
think this is a general fix that should be included in the
nagios-plugins distribtion, so I'm sending it to this list.

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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:03:40 +0300
From: Martin Tsachev <martin at mtweb.org>
To: Blaz Zupan <blaz at si.FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: nagios ircd plugin

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On Tuesday 10 August 2004 08:40, you wrote:
> > Please apply the following patch to the ircd check plugin:
> >
> > - --- check_ircd	Mon Aug  9 19:10:26 2004
> > +++ check_ircd.new	Mon Aug  9 19:10:55 2004
> > @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
> >  $ENV{PATH} = "";
> >  $ENV{ENV} = "";
> >  $ENV{BASH_ENV} = "";
> > +$ENV{CDPATH} = "";
>
> Sure, could you please just elaborate on what problem it fixes (I don't use
> the plugin myself)?

The check_ircd script is run in perl's tainted mode. Perl checks for some
insecure environment variables and if they are set refuses to run.

In my case I have CDPATH set globally on the system so this is the only way to
run the check script.

- --
Martin Tsachev
http://martin.f2o.org
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