[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#351257: nagios-plugins: check_ntp produces lots of bogus warning ouput if 'jitter' is too high

[Benoit Panizzon]

Package: nagios-plugins
Version: 1.4-6
Severity: normal


Example:

nagios:~# locate check_ntp
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp
nagios:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp -H filter2.imp.ch
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 346.
NTP WARNING: Jitter  too high

this also happens if you define values for each parameter:

nagios:~# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp -H filter2.imp.ch -w 60 -c 120 -j 5000 -k 10000
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 307.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp line 346.
NTP WARNING: Jitter  too high



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages nagios-plugins depends on:
ii  bind9-host [host 1:9.2.4-1               Version of 'host' bundled with BIN
ii  dnsutils         1:9.2.4-1               Clients provided with BIND
ii  fping            2.4b2-to-ipv6-10        sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to
ii  iputils-ping     3:20020927-2            Tools to test the reachability of 
ii  libc6            2.3.2.ds1-22            GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libldap2         2.1.30-8                OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libmysqlclient12 4.0.24-10sarge1         mysql database client library
ii  libnet-snmp-perl 5.0.1-1                 Script SNMP connections
ii  libpq3           7.4.7-6sarge1           PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libssl0.9.7      0.9.7e-3sarge1          SSL shared libraries
ii  ntp              1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1 Network Time Protocol: network uti
ii  ntp-simple       1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1 Network Time Protocol: daemon for 
ii  ntpdate          1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1 The ntpdate client for setting sys
ii  procps           1:3.2.1-2               The /proc file system utilities
ii  qstat            2.8-1                   Command-line tool for querying qua
ii  radiusclient1    0.3.2-8                 /bin/login replacement which uses 
ii  smbclient        3.0.14a-3sarge1         a LanManager-like simple client fo
ii  snmp             5.1.2-6.2               NET SNMP (Simple Network Managemen

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