[Users] strange problem with nagios nrpe server

[Marcin Owsiany]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:59:13PM +0100, Listaccount wrote:
> Zitat von Gregor Mosheh <gregor at hostgis.com>:
> 
> >Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> >>Just for the history/other users the resolution of the problem Steve had:
> >>OpenVZ was installed on XFS
> >
> >WOW, good work Kirill. That must have been a gnarly one to figure out,
> >I never even thought of the filesystem type combined with a bug in NRPE.
> 
> Sorry, have not listen close enough to this. Why is it a problem with  
> XFS. The filesystem should not matter for applications running so it  
> would be a XFS bug?

The application (nrpe) uses a non-portable feature of some filesystems
without paying attention whether a particualar filesystem actually
supported this feature. In this case, XFS happened not to support it,
which resulted in invalid behavior of the application.

To summarize: it's a bug in the application, but can be worked around by
using ext3.

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