[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#471842: Bug#471842: Defaults: localhost, Disk Space is UNKNOWN. Missing include cfg.

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:08:51PM -0500, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 04:18:25PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > tags #471842 wontfix
> > thanks
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:26:59PM -0500, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> > > Perhaps this should be a known bug, wontfix.
> > 
> > I agree, not fully having understood the issue, though.
> > 
> Sorry,
>   I had a problem where on a not-fully installed system, check_disk was
> reporting UNKNOWN status.  The culprit was an empty /etc/mtab.
> 
> Adding an entry for / corrected the issue.  As a Nagios check, should
> this condition be detected and reported?

It should probably be caught by the appropriate plugin, but that would
probably affect the plugin's portability. It would probably be a good
idea to file a bug against the plugin and to block this one with the
new bug.

Greetings
Marc

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