Bug#327212: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#327212: nagios-common: locale problem breaks ping plugin

[alet at unice.fr]

Hi again,

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:40:03AM -0400, sean finney wrote:
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> i'm readjusting the severity of this, as the nagios is still quite
> installable for everyone and useable for most people.  i'm also
> pondering reassigning it to nagios-plugins, as i believe it is
> specific plugins failing and not the nagios subsystem, but i'll
> hold off on that until we get all the information necessary.

OK.

> > It seems that Nagios can't parse the output of some plugins when
> > the decimal point is ',' instead of '.', that's probably why
> > /etc/init.d/nagios contains LC_NUMERIC=POSIX.
> 
> hmm.. strange.  i would think that exporting the above would be all
> that we needed, i guess not.  can you give me a specific example?
> 
> > However, this doesn't seem to be sufficient if the system has
> > started in a non-default locale.
> > 
> > By modifying /etc/init.d/nagios and setting :
> > 
> >     export LC_ALL=POSIX
> 
> it'd be nice if there were some medium ground where non-relevant
> locale settings could remain at what they were, so error messages etc
> could remain in the right locale.
> 
> really, i'm suspecting the real fix should be in the individual plugins
> (which i've actually fixed upstream in later versions), but i'll need
> to see an example before i can be sure of that.

I too think the fix should be done once and for all in the plugins, 
however the LC_ALL solution fixed the problem for me.

Here's what I've got :

--- CUT ---
servmediup:~# printenv |grep LC_
LC_ALL=fr_FR at euro
servmediup:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping -H 134.59.53.14 -w 10,15% -c 15,20%
/bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 5 134.59.53.14
CRITIQUE - Impossible d'interpréter le réponse de la commande ping
servmediup:~# export LC_NUMERIC=POSIX
servmediup:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping -H 134.59.53.14 -w 10,15% -c 15,20%
/bin/ping -n -U -w 10 -c 5 134.59.53.14
CRITIQUE - Impossible d'interpréter le réponse de la commande ping
servmediup:~# export LC_ALL=POSIX    
servmediup:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping -H 134.59.53.14 -w 10,15% -c 15,20%
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.29 ms
servmediup:~# 
--- CUT ---

the lines beginning with "CRITIQUE" are the error message translated
into French. I guess the original is something like :

        "CRITICAL - Impossible to parse the answer of the ping command"
        
hoping this helps

bye

Jerome Alet
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