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Gerhard Lausser wrote:
> Hi Ethan,
>
> i stumbled over a bug in reiserfs, when i was desperately trying to find out
> why an include_dir= statement in my nrpe.cfg was ignored.
> In the read_config_dir function you wrote:
>
> #ifdef _DIRENT_HAVE_D_TYPE
> /* only process normal files */
> if(dirfile->d_type!=DT_REG)
> continue;
> #endif
>
> which is completely correct.
> BUT:
> - Linux defines _DIRENT_HAVE_D_TYPE
> - readdir for a reiserfs ALWAYS returns DT_UNKNOWN as d_dtype
> so always the continue statement will be executed and the configfile will be
> ignored.
> I made a patch which uses stat and the S_ISREG and S_ISDIR macros instead of
> d_type, which also should work on systems without _DIRENT_HAVE_D_TYPE.
>
> Greetings from Munich,
> Gerhard

Thanks! This will be included in NRPE 2.5, which I will be releasing
shortly...


Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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