[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Bugs-1118832 ] check_procs reports incorrect number of processes

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Bugs item #1118832, was opened at 2005-02-08 11:00
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Category: Argument proccessing
Group: snapshot tarball
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Chris (clambertus)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: check_procs reports incorrect number of processes

Initial Comment:
When check_procs is used with a system like check_nrpe,
the nrpe daemon executes popen(), which causes
check_procs to be executed as "sh -c
/path/to/check_procs argument_list" 

This causes erroneous returns because check_procs fails
the strcmp(procprog,progname) call, since the
"procprog" is actually sh. 

To fix this, I added an additional strstr() call which
compares progname against procargs and discards the
line if "check_procs" appears in the process argument list.

This is not an ideal solution, but should take care of
the vast majority of cases where check_procs is used
with check_nrpe or similar utilities.


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